NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Health Economics Archive

NBER Papers in Health Economics


2007
w13715 Jody L. Sindelar
Jason Fletcher
Tracy Falba
Patricia Keenan
William T. Gallo

Impact of First Occupation on Health at Older Ages

w13680 Larry E. Jones
Alice Schoonbroodt

Complements versus Substitutes and Trends in Fertility Choice in Dynastic Models

w13664 Awash Teklehaimanot
Gordon C. McCord
Jeffrey D. Sachs

Scaling Up Malaria Control in Africa: An Economic and Epidemiological Assessment

w13630 David E. Bloom
David Canning
Michael Moore

A Theory of Retirement

w13610 Emily Oster
Routes of Infection: Exports and HIV Incidence in Sub-Saharan Africa

w13668 David Card
Carlos Dobkin
Nicole Maestas

Does Medicare Save Lives?

w13604 Joseph H. Golec
John A. Vernon

Financial Risk in the Biotechnology Industry

w13600 John Cawley
Feng Liu

Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity: A Search for Mechanisms in Time Use Data

w13599 W. Kip Viscusi
Joni Hersch

The Mortality Cost to Smokers

w13595 Roy Wada
Erdal Tekin

Body Composition and Wages

w13583 David E. Bloom
David Canning
Günther Fink
Jocelyn E. Finlay

Fertility, Female Labor Force Participation, and the Demographic Dividend

w13578 Richard V. Burkhauser
Kosali I. Simon

Who Gets What from Employer Pay or Play Mandates?

w13561 Tomas J. Philipson
Eric Sun

Is the Food and Drug Administration Safe and Effective?

w13541 Anne Case
Alicia Menendez

Sex Differences in Obesity Rates in Poor Countries: Evidence from South Africa

w13539 David Cutler
Winnie Fung
Michael Kremer
Monica Singhal
Tom Vogl

Mosquitoes: The Long-term Effects of Malaria Eradication in India

w13529 Muriel Niederle
Alvin E. Roth

The Effects of a Centralized Clearinghouse on Job Placement, Wages, and Hiring Practices

w13519 Brian Jacob
Lars Lefgren

The Impact of Research Grant Funding on Scientific Productivity

w13501 Darius Lakdawalla
Neeraj Sood

The Welfare Effects of Public Drug Insurance

w13498 Sandra G. Sosa-Rubi
Omar Galarraga
Jeffrey E. Harris

Heterogeneous Impact of the "Seguro Popular" Program on the Utilization of Obstetrical Services in Mexico, 2001-2006: A Multinomial Probit Model with a Discrete Endogenous Variable

w13495 Anne Case
Diana Lee
Christina Paxson

The Income Gradient in Children's Health: A Comment on Currie, Shields and Wheatley Price

w13494 Anna Aizer
Wages, Violence and Health in the Household

w13492 Anna Aizer
Pedro Dal Bó

Love, Hate and Murder: Commitment Devices in Violent Relationships

w13488 Alan C. Monheit
Jessica P. Vistnes
Jeannette A. Rogowski

Overweight in Adolescents: Implications for Health Expenditures

w13482 Dhaval Dave
Henry Saffer

Risk Tolerance and Alcohol Demand Among Adults and Older Adults

w13478 David M. Cutler
The Lifetime Costs and Benefits of Medical Technology

w13477 David M. Cutler
Edward L. Glaeser

Social Interactions and Smoking

w13474 Jason Fletcher
Barbara L. Wolfe

Child Mental Health and Human Capital Accumulation: The Case of ADHD Revisited

w13466 Shin-Yi Chou
Jin-Tan Liu
Michael Grossman
Theodore J. Joyce

Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan

w13441 Andrew D. Racine
Cristina Yunzal-Butler

Reassessing the WIC Effect: Evidence from the Pregnancy Nutrition Surveillance System

w13436 Melissa S. Kearney
Phillip B. Levine

Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Early Childbearing

w13429 June E. O'Neill
Dave M. O'Neill

Health Status, Health Care and Inequality: Canada vs. the U.S.

w13415 Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
Beau Kilmer
Michael Grossman
Frank J. Chaloupka

Risks and Prices: The Role of User Sanctions in Marijuana Markets

w13411 Joshua D. Angrist
Stacey H. Chen

Long-term consequences of vietnam-era conscription: schooling, experience, and earnings

w13408 Christopher S. Carpenter
Mark Stehr

The Effects of Mandatory Seatbelt Laws on Seatbelt Use, Motor Vehicle Fatalities, and Crash-Related Injuries among Youths

w13407 Pinka Chatterji
Ellen Meara

Consequences of Eliminating Federal Disability Benefits for Substance Abusers

w13396 Till Bärnighausen
David E. Bloom

"Conditional scholarships" for HIV/AIDS Health Workers: Educating and Retaining the Workforce to Provide Antiretroviral Treatment in Sub-Saharan Africa

w13386 MaryBeth Walker
Erdal Tekin
Sally Wallace

Teen Smoking and Birth Outcomes

w13384 Douglas Almond
Lena Edlund
Hongbin Li
Junsen Zhang

Long-Term Effects Of The 1959-1961 China Famine: Mainland China and Hong Kong

w13374 Christopher Carpenter
Carlos Dobkin

The Effect of Alcohol Consumption on Mortality: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from the Minimum Drinking Age

w13347 Douglas Almond
Lena Edlund
Mårten Palme

Chernobyl's Subclinical Legacy: Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout and School Outcomes in Sweden

w13333 Gary Becker
Kevin Murphy
Tomas Philipson

The Value of Life Near its End and Terminal Care

w13324 John Komlos
Ariane Breitfelder

The height of US-born non-Hispanic children and adolescents ages 2-19, born 1942-2002 in the NHANES Samples

w13317 Angus Deaton
Income, Aging, Health and Wellbeing Around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll

w13312 Charles F. Manski
Adaptive Minimax-Regret Treatment Choice, With Application To Drug Approval

w13301 Joseph J. Doyle
Jr.

Returns to Local-Area Health Care Spending: Using Health Shocks to Patients Far From Home

w13289 Charles L. Baum II
Christopher J. Ruhm

Age, Socioeconomic Status and Obesity Growth

w13262 Jeffrey S. DeSimone
Fraternity Membership and Drinking Behavior

w13261 Thomas Buchmueller
Anthony Lo Sasso
Kathleen Wong

How Did SCHIP Affect the Insurance Coverage of Immigrant Children?

w13252 Janet Currie
Eric Hanushek
E. Megan Kahn
Matthew Neidell
Steven Rivkin

Does Pollution Increase School Absences?

w13227 Olivier Deschenes
Enrico Moretti

Extreme Weather Events, Mortality and Migration

w13221 David E. Bloom
David Canning
Günther Fink
Jocelyn E. Finlay

Does Age Structure Forecast Economic Growth?

w13195 James J. Heckman
The Economics, Technology and Neuroscience of Human Capability Formation

w13178 Olivier Deschênes
Michael Greenstone

Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the US

w13188 Michael Baker
Kevin S. Milligan

Maternal employment, breastfeeding, and health: Evidence from maternity leave mandates

w13181 Christopher J. Ruhm
Current and Future Prevalence of Obesity and Severe Obesity in the United States

w13133 Christopher Carpenter
How Do Workplace Smoking Laws Work? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Local Laws in Ontario, Canada

w13125 Avi Dor
Mark V. Pauly
Margaret A. Eichleay
Philip J. Held

End-stage Renal Disease and Economic Incentives: The International Study of Health Care Organization and Financing

w13113 Inas Rashad
Sara Markowitz

Incentives in Obesity and Health Insurance

w13097 Jessica Wolpaw Reyes
Environmental Policy as Social Policy? The Impact of Childhood Lead Exposure on Crime

w13087 Rodrigo R. Soares
Health and the Evolution of Welfare across Brazilian Municipalities

w13078 Michael C. Christensen
Dahlia Remler

Information and Communications Technology in Chronic Disease Care: Why is Adoption So Slow and Is Slower Better?

w13066 Kevin Lang
Hong Kang

Worker Sorting, Taxes and Health Insurance Coverage

w13049 Emily Oster
HIV and Sexual Behavior Change: Why Not Africa?

w13046 Christopher Carpenter
Philip J. Cook

Cigarette Taxes and Youth Smoking: New Evidence from National, State, & Local Youth Risk Behavior Surveys

w13045 Melissa S. Kearney
Phillip B. Levine

Subsidized Contraception, Fertility, and Sexual Behavior

w13044 Mark V. Pauly
Fredric E. Blavin

Value Based Cost Sharing Meets the Theory of Moral Hazard: Medical Effectiveness in Insurance Benefits Design

w13013 David M. Cutler
Edward L. Glaeser
Allison B. Rosen

Is the US Population Behaving Healthier?

w12966 Carlos Bozzoli
Angus S. Deaton
Climent Quintana-Domeque

Child Mortality, Income and Adult Height

w12964 Henry Saffer
Melanie Wakefield
Yvonne Terry-McElrath

The Effect of Nicotine Replacement Therapy Advertising on Youth Smoking

w12954 Sara Bleich
David Cutler
Christopher Murray
Alyce Adams

Why Is The Developed World Obese?

w12951 Steven F. Lehrer
Nuno Sousa Pereira

Worker Sorting, Compensating Differentials and Health Insurance: Evidence from Displaced Workers

w12935 David G. Blanchflower
Andrew Oswald

Is Well-being U-Shaped over the Life Cycle?

w12934 David G. Blanchflower
Andrew J. Oswald

Hypertension and Happiness across Nations

w12929 Inas Rashad
Cycling: An Increasingly Untouched Source of Physical and Mental Health

w12907 Thomas DeLeire
Leonard M. Lopoo
Kosali I. Simon

Medicaid Expansions and Fertility in the United States

w12905 James Smith
Diabetes and the Rise of the SES Health Gradient

w12892 Dalton Conley
Gordon C. McCord
Jeffrey D. Sachs

Africa's Lagging Demographic Transition: Evidence from Exogenous Impacts of Malaria Ecology and Agricultural Technology

w12870 Dana Goldman
Tomas Philipson

Integrated Insurance Design in the Presence of Multiple Medical Technologies

w12869 Isaac Ehrlich
Jinyoung Kim

Has Social Security Influenced Family Formation and Fertility in OECD Countries? An Economic and Econometric Analysis

w12868 Isaac Ehrlich
The Mystery of Human Capital as Engine of Growth, or Why the US Became the Economic Superpower in the 20th Century

w12864 Jin-Tan Liu
Meng-Wen Tsou
James Hammitt

Health Information and Subjective Survival Probability: Evidence from Taiwan

w12858 Jonathan Gruber
Kosali Simon

Crowd-Out Ten Years Later: Have Recent Public Insurance Expansions Crowded Out Private Health Insurance?

w12857 Ming-Jen Lin
Jin-Tan Liu
Shin-Yi Chou

As Low Birth Weight Babies Grow, Can 'Good' Parents Buffer this Adverse Factor? A Research Note.

w12849 Neeraj Kaushal
Do Food Stamps Cause Obesity? Evidence from Immigrant Experience

w12848 Nasreen Khan
Robert Kaestner
Swu Jane Lin

Prescription Drug Insurance and Its Effect on Utilization and Health of the Elderly

w12840 Flavio Cunha
James Heckman

The Technology of Skill Formation

w12838 Bruno L. S. Falcao
Rodrigo R. Soares

The Demographic Transition and the Sexual Division of Labor

w12837 Rodrigo R. Soares
On the Determinants of Mortality Reductions in the Developing World

w12836 Javier A. Birchenall
Rodrigo R. Soares

Altruism, Fertility, and the Value of Children: Health Policy Evaluation and Intergenerational Welfare

w12831 Alberto Abadie
Alexis Diamond
Jens Hainmueller

Synthetic Control Methods for Comparative Case Studies: Estimating the Effect of California's Tobacco Control Program

w12830 Li Gan
Guan Gong

Estimating Interdependence Between Health and Education in a Dynamic Model


2006
w12803 Allan Begosh
John Goldsmith
Ed Hass
Randall W. Lutter
Clark Nardinelli
John A. Vernon

Black Box Warnings and Drug Safety: Examining the Determinants and Timing of FDA Warning Labels

w12764 Dhaval Dave
Robert Kaestner

Health Insurance and Ex Ante Moral Hazard: Evidence from Medicare

w12762 Beth J. Soldo
Olivia S. Mitchell
Rania Tfaily
John F. McCabe

Cross-Cohort Differences in Health on the Verge of Retirement

w12754 Hope Corman
Kelly Noonan
Nancy E. Reichman
Ofira Schwartz-Soicher

Crime and Circumstance: The Effects of Infant Health Shocks on Fathers' Criminal Activity

w12689 Joshua S. Graff Zivin
Harsha Thirumurthy
Markus Goldstein

AIDS Treatment and Intrahousehold Resource Allocations: Children's Nutrition and Schooling in Kenya

w12688 David E. Bloom
David Canning
Michael Moore
Younghwan Song

The Effect of Subjective Survival Probabilities on Retirement and Wealth in the United States

w12686 Li Gan
Lixin Colin Xu
Yang Yao

Health Shocks, Village Elections, and Long-Term Income: Evidence from Rural China

w12681 Darius Lakdawalla
Neeraj Sood

Health Insurance as a Two-Part Pricing Contract

w12676 Joseph H. Golec
John A. Vernon

European Pharmaceutical Price Regulation, Firm Profitability, and R&D Spending

w12674 James Banks
Michael Marmot
Zoe Oldfield
James P. Smith

The SES Health Gradient on Both Sides of the Atlantic

w12652 Eliot A. Jamison
Dean T. Jamison
Eric A. Hanushek

The Effects of Education Quality on Income Growth and Mortality Decline

w12651 Eric A. Hanushek
Steven G. Rivkin

School Quality and the Black-White Achievement Gap

w12642 Marianne Bitler
Hilary W. Hoynes

Welfare Reform and Indirect Impacts on Health

w12631 Naci H. Mocan
R. Kaj Gittings

The Impact of Incentives on Human Behavior: Can We Make It Disappear? The Case of the Death Penalty

w12619 Omar Galarraga
David S. Salkever
Judith A. Cook
Stephen J. Gange

An Instrumental Variable Evaluation of Antidepressant Use on Employment Among HIV-Infected Women Using Highly-Active Antiretroviral Therapy in the United States: 1996-2004

w12615 Ahmed Khwaja
Dan Silverman
Frank Sloan

Time Preference, Time Discounting, and Smoking Decisions

w12608 Silvie Colman
Theodore J. Joyce
Robert Kaestner

Methodological Issues in the Evaluation of Parental Involvement Laws: Evidence from Texas

w12607 Theodore J. Joyce
Further Tests of Abortion and Crime: A Response to Donohue and Levitt (2001,2004, 2006)

w12603 Karen Clay
Werner Troesken
Michael Haines

Lead Pipes and Child Mortality

w12595 Kosali I. Simon
Claudio Lucarelli

What Drove First Year Premiums in Stand-Alone Medicare Drug Plans?

w12577 Darius Lakdawalla
Tomas Philipson
Y. Richard Wang

Intellectual Property and Marketing

w12556 Neeraj Sood
Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin
Jose J. Escarce

Does How Much and How You Pay Matter? Evidence from the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System

w12554 Mariacristina De Nardi
Eric French
John Bailey Jones

Differential Mortality, Uncertain Medical Expenses, and the Saving of Elderly Singles

w12532 Christina Czart Ciecierski
Pinka Chatterji
Frank J. Chaloupka
Henry Wechsler

Do State Expenditures on Tobacco Control Programs Decrease Use of Tobacco Products Among College Students?

w12529 Pinka Chatterji
Jeffrey DeSimone

High School Alcohol Use and Young Adult Labor Market Outcomes

w12528 Jessica Wolpaw Reyes
Do Female Physicians Capture Their Scarcity Value? The Case of OB/GYNs

w12527 Sara Markowitz
The Effectiveness of Cigarette Regulations in Reducing Cases of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

w12519 Steven D. Levitt
Joseph J. Doyle

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Child Safety Seats and Seat Belts in Protecting Children from Injury

w12510 John Cawley
Contingent Valuation Analysis of Willingness to Pay To Reduce Childhood Obesity

w12506 David Bishai
Jody Sindelar

Willingness to Pay for Drug Rehabilitation: Implications for Cost Recovery

w12504 Bradley Herring
Mark V. Pauly

The Effect of State Community Rating Regulations on Premiums and Coverage in the Individual Health Insurance Market

w12472 Philip J. Cook
Rebecca Hutchinson

Smoke Signals: Adolescent Smoking and School Continuation

w12468 Jeffrey S. DeSimone
Fraternity Membership and Binge Drinking

w12466 Anne Case
Christina Paxson

Stature and Status: Height, Ability, and Labor Market Outcomes

w12458 Philip DeCicca
Donald S. Kenkel
Alan D. Mathios
Yoon-Jeong Shin
Jae-Young Lim

Youth Smoking, Cigarette Prices, and Anti-Smoking Sentiment

w12437 Pinka Chatterji
Alison Cuellar

How Do Youth with Mental Disorders Fare in the Juvenile Justice System?

w12436 David Autor
Mark Duggan

The Growth in the Social Security Disability Rolls: A Fiscal Crisis Unfolding

w12429 Alan C. Monheit
Jessica Primoff Vistnes

Health Insurance Enrollment Decisions: Preferences for Coverage, Worker Sorting, and Insurance Take Up

w12418 James A. Levinsohn
Taryn Dinkelman
Rolang Majelantle

When Knowledge is not Enough: HIV/AIDS Information and Risky Behavior in Botswana

w12406 Frank R. Lichtenberg
The Impact of Increased Utilization of HIV Drugs on Longevity and Medical Expenditures: An Assessment Based on Aggregate U.S. Time-Series Data

w12304 Weili Ding
Steven F. Lehrer
J. Niels Rosenquist
Janet Audrain-McGovern

The Impact of Poor Health on Education: New Evidence Using Genetic Markers

w12300 Sara Markowitz
John Tauras

Even For Teenagers, Money Does Not Grow on Trees: Teenage Substance Use and Budget Constraints

w12291 John Cawley
Richard V. Burkhauser

Beyond BMI: The Value of More Accurate Measures of Fatness and Obesity in Social Science Research

w12273 Kanika Kapur
Jeannette Rogowski

Love or Money? Health Insurance and Retirement Among Married Couples

w12232 Alison Cuellar
Sara Markowitz

Medicaid Policy Changes in Mental Health Care and Their Effect on Mental Health Outcomes

w12208 Lara Gardner
Donna Gilleskie

The Effects of State Medicaid Policies on the Dynamic Savings Patterns of the Elderly

w12197 Hope Corman
Anne Carroll
Kelly Noonan
Nancy E. Reichman

The Effects of Health on Health Insurance Status in Fragile Families

w12132 Tomas J. Philipson
Richard A. Posner

Antitrust in the Not-For-Profit Sector

w12156 Mark Coppejans
Donna Gilleskie
Holger Sieg
Koleman Strumpf

Consumer Demand under Price Uncertainty: Empirical Evidence from the Market for Cigarettes

w12124 David M. Cutler
Edward L. Glaeser

Why Do Europeans Smoke More than Americans?

w12123 Dhaval Dave
Inas Rashad
Jasmina Spasojevic

The Effects of Retirement on Physical and Mental Health Outcomes

w12120 Frank R. Lichtenberg
The Impact of New Laboratory Procedures and Other Medical Innovations on the Health of Americans, 1990-2003: Evidence from Longitudinal, Disease-Level Data

w12113 Robert Kaestner
Xin Xu

Effects of Title IX and Sports Participation on Girls' Physical Activity and Weight

w12111 Karen Clay
Werner Troesken

Deprivation and Disease in Early Twentieth-Century America

w12102 Christopher J. Ruhm
A Healthy Economy Can Break Your Heart

w12039 Pierre Azoulay
Andrew Stellman
Joshua Graff Zivin

PublicationHarvester: An Open-Source Software Tool for Science Policy Research

w12019 Naci Mocan
Erdal Tekin

Ugly Criminals

w12004 Nancy E. Reichman
Hope Corman
Kelly Noonan
Dhaval Dave

Typically Unobserved Variables (TUVs) and Selection into Prenatal Inputs: Implications for Estimating Infant Health Production Functions

w12001 Rosemary J. Avery
Donald S. Kenkel
Dean R. Lillard
Alan D. Mathios

Regulating Advertisements: The Case of Smoking Cessation Products

w11990 Donald S. Kenkel
Dean R. Lillard
Alan D. Mathios

The Roles of High School Completion and GED Receipt in Smoking and Obesity

w11987 John J. Donohue
Steven D. Levitt

Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz (2005)

w11980 Brigitte Madrian
The U.S. Health Care System and Labor Markets

w11977 Anthony T. Lo Sasso
Bruce D. Meyer

The Health Care Safety Net and Crowd-Out of Private Health Insurance

w11975 Helen Levy
Health Insurance and the Wage Gap

w11957 Inas Rashad
Structural Estimation of Caloric Intake, Exercise, Smoking, and Obesity

w11956 Jayachandran N. Variyam
John Cawley

Nutrition Labels and Obesity

w11938 Rosemary Avery
Donald Kenkel
Dean R. Lillard
Alan Mathios

Private Profits and Public Health: Does Advertising Smoking Cessation Products Encourage Smokers to Quit?

w11934 W. Kip Viscusi
Regulation of Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks

w11911 David Bell
David Blanchflower

The Scots may be Brave but They are Neither Healthy Nor Happy


2005
w11902 Philip J. Cook
Bethany Peters

The Myth of the Drinker's Bonus

w11893 Pinka Chatterji
Margarita Alegria
Mingshun Lu
David Takeuchi

Psychiatric Disorders and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the National Latino and Asian American Study

w11881 Henry Saffer
The Demand for Social Interaction

w11879 Shin-Yi Chou
Inas Rashad
Michael Grossman

Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and Its Influence on Childhood Obesity

w11875 John A. Vernon
W. Keener Hughen

The Future of Drug Development: The Economics of Pharmacogenomics

w11863 W. Kip Viscusi
Richard Zeckhauser

The Perception and Valuation of the Risks of Climate Change: A Rational and Behavioral Blend

w11822 Katherine Ho
Insurer-Provider Networks in the Medical Care Market

w11811 Mark Duggan
Perry Singleton
Jae Song

Aching to Retire? The Rise in the Full Retirement Age and its Impact on the Disability Rolls

w11796 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Kjell Salvanes

From the Cradle to the Labor Market? The Effect of Birth Weight on Adult Outcomes

w11770 Toshiaki Iizuka
Ginger Zhe Jin

Drug Advertising and Health Habit

w11737 Philip J. Cook
Jens Ludwig
Sudhir Venkatesh
Anthony A. Braga

Underground Gun Markets

w11724 Tomas J. Philipson
Ernst R. Berndt
Adrian H. B. Gottschalk
Matthew W. Strobeck

Assessing the Safety and Efficacy of the FDA: The Case of the Prescription Drug User Fee Acts

w11723 David C. Grabowski
Jonathan Gruber

Moral Hazard in Nursing Home Use

w11707 Jason R. Barro
Robert S. Huckman
Daniel P. Kessler

The Effects of Cardiac Specialty Hospitals on the Cost and Quality of Medical Care

w11705 Sujoy Chakravarty
Martin Gaynor
Steven Klepper
William B. Vogt

Does the Profit Motive Make Jack Nimble? Ownership Form and the Evolution of the U.S. Hospital Industry

w11704 Grant Miller
Contraception as Development? New Evidence from Family Planning in Colombia

w11690 Antonio J. Trujillo
John A. Vernon
Laura Rodriguez Wong
Gustavo Angeles

Race and Health Disparities Among Seniors in Urban Areas in Brazil

w11659 Thomas J. Kniesner
W. Kip Viscusi
Christopher Woock
James P. Ziliak

How Unobservable Productivity Biases the Value of a Statistical Life

w11613 Jeff DeSimone
Sara Markowitz

The Effect of Child Access Prevention Laws on Non-Fatal Gun Injuries

w11590 Isaac Ehrlich
Jinyoung Kim

Endogenous Fertility, Mortality and Economic Growth: Can a Malthusian Framework Account for the Conflicting Historical Trends in Population?

w11584 Inas Rashad
Michael Grossman
Shin-Yi Chou

The Super Size of America: An Economic Estimation of Body Mass Index and Obesity in Adults

w11582 Michael Grossman
Education and Nonmarket Outcomes

w11529 Jay Bhattacharya
Neeraj Sood

Health Insurance and the Obesity Externality

w11518 B. Douglas Bernheim
Antonio Rangel

Behavioral Public Economics: Welfare and Policy Analysis with Non-Standard Decision-Makers

w11483 Jonathan Gruber
Michael Frakes

Does Falling Smoking Lead to Rising Obesity?

w11455 David N. Weil
Accounting for the Effect of Health on Economic Growth

w11433 Kelly Noonan
Nancy E. Reichman
Hope Corman
Dhaval Dave

Prenatal Drug Use and the Production of Infant Health

w11411 John Cawley
Chad D. Meyerhoefer
David Newhouse

The Impact of State Physical Education Requirements on Youth Physical Activity and Overweight

w11390 Philip J. Cook
Jens Ludwig

Assigning Deviant Youths to Minimize Total Harm

w11378 Sara Markowitz
Robert Kaestner
Michael Grossman

An Investigation of the Effects of Alcohol Consumption and Alcohol Policies on Youth Risky Sexual Behaviors

w11355 Jeffrey A. Miron
Chris Feige

The Opium Wars, Opium Legalization, and Opium Consumption in China

w11343 Dalton Conley
Rebecca Glauber

Gender, Body Mass and Economic Status

w11337 Pinka Chatterji
Jeff DeSimone

Adolescent Drinking and High School Dropout

w11320 Dalton Conley
Rebecca Glauber

Sibling Similarity and Difference in Socioeconomic Status: Life Course and Family Resource Effects

w11316 Naci Mocan
Erdal Tekin

The Determinants of the Willingness to be an Organ Donor

w11302 Dalton Conley
Rebecca Glauber

Parental Educational Investment and Children's Academic Risk: Estimates of the Impact of Sibship Size and Birth Order from Exogenous Variations in Fertility

w11238 Erdal Tekin
Sara Markowitz

Suicidal Behavior and the Labor Market Productivity of Young Adults

w11229 Joseph Golec
Shantaram Hegde
John A. Vernon

Pharmaceutical Stock Price Reactions to Price Constraint Threats and Firm-Level R&D Spending

w11164 Neeraj Sood
Abby Alpert
Jay Bhattacharya

Technology, Monopoly, and the Decline of the Viatical Settlements Industry

w11160 Katherine Baicker
Amitabh Chandra

The Labor Market Effects of Rising Health Insurance Premiums

w11141 Herschel I. Grossman
Daniel Mejia

The War Against Drug Producers

w11139 Rexford Santerre
John A. Vernon

Assessing Consumer Gains from a Drug Price Control Policy in the U.S.

w11115 Rexford E. Santerre
John A. Vernon

Testing for Ownership Mix Efficiency: The Case of the Nursing Home Industry

w11114 Thomas A. Abbott
John A. Vernon

The Cost of US Pharmaceutical Price Reductions: A Financial Simulation Model of R&D Decisions

w11109 Mark G. Duggan
William N. Evans

Estimating the Impact of Medical Innovation: A Case Study of HIV Antiretroviral Treatments

w11100 David Cutler
Edward Glaeser

What Explains Differences in Smoking, Drinking and Other Health-Related Behaviors

w11099 Joseph J. Doyle Jr.
Health Insurance, Treatment and Outcomes: Using Auto Accidents as Health Shocks

w11068 John R. Moran
Kosali Ilayperuma Simon

Income and the Use of Prescription Drugs by the Elderly: Evidence from the Notch Cohorts

w11039 Amy Finkelstein
Kathleen McGarry
Amir Sufi

Dynamic Inefficiencies in Insurance Markets: Evidence from long-term care insurance

w11035 Jeff DeSimone
Amy M. Wolaver

Drinking and Academic Performance in High School


2004
w11007 Christopher J. Ruhm
Macroeconomic Conditions, Health and Mortality

w10991 Alwyn Young
The Gift of the Dying: The Tragedy of AIDS and the Welfare of Future African Generations

w10989 Jeffrey R. Brown
Amy Finkelstein

The Interaction of Public and Private Insurance: Medicaid and the Long-Term Care Insurance Market

w10977 Jonathan Gruber
Tax Policy for Health Insurance

w10976 Gary S. Becker
Kevin M. Murphy
Michael Grossman

The Economic Theory of Illegal Goods: The Case of Drugs

w10974 Susan H. Busch
Mireia Jofre-Bonet
Tracy A. Falba
Jody L. Sindelar

Tobacco Spending and its Crowd-Out of Other Goods

w10964 Zhou Yang
Donna B. Gilleskie
Edward C. Norton

Prescription Drugs, Medical Care, and Health Outcomes: A Model of Elderly Health Dynamics

w10963 Bo E. Honore
Adriana Lleras Muney

Bounds in Competing Risks Models and the War on Cancer

w10949 Michael Grossman
Robert Kaestner
Sara Markowitz

An Investigation of the Effects of Alcohol Policies on Youth STDs

w10948 Michael Grossman
Individual Behaviors and Substance Use: The Role of Price

w10946 Robert Bornholz
James J. Heckman

Measuring Disparate Impacts and Extending Disparate Impact Doctrine to Organ Transplantation

w10906 Greg Colman
Dahlia K. Remler

Vertical Equity Consequences of Very High Cigarette Tax Increases: If the Poor are the Ones Smoking, How Could Cigarette Tax Increases be Progressive?

w10902 Dora L. Costa
Race and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from Union Army Veterans

w10896 John F. Helliwell
Well-Being and Social Capital: Does Suicide Pose a Puzzle?

w10890 Isaac Ehrlich
Jinyoung Kim

The Evolution of Income and Fertility Inequalities over the Course of Economic Development: A Human Capital Perspective

w10884 Frank R. Lichtenberg
The Effect of Drug Vintage on Survival: Micro Evidence from Puerto Rico's Medicaid Program

w10881 Richard G. Frank
Behavioral Economics and Health Economics

w10873 Melissa A. Thomasson
Jaret Treber

From Home to Hospital: The Evolution of Childbirth in the United States, 1927-1940

w10868 Elizabeth Brainerd
David M. Cutler

Autopsy on an Empire: Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union

w10861 Jeff DeSimone
Edward J. Schumacher

Compensating Wage Differentials and AIDS Risk

w10842 Jonathan Skinner
Weiping Zhou

The Measurement and Evolution of Health Inequality: Evidence from the U.S. Medicare Population

w10824 Denise Mauzerall
Babar Sultan
Namsoug Kim
David F. Bradford

Charging NOx Emitters for Health Damages: An Exploratory Analysis

w10822 Ernst R. Berndt
Adrian H. B. Gottschalk
Tomas Philipson
Matthew W. Strobeck

Assessing the Impacts of the Prescription Drug User Fee Acts (PDUFA) on the FDA Approval Process

w10818 Takatoshi Ito
Inflation Targeting and Japan: Why has the Bank of Japan not Adopted Inflation Targeting?

w10811 Amitabh Chandra
Douglas Staiger

Testing a Roy Model with Productivity Spillovers: Evidence from the Treatment of Heart Attacks

w10799 Jose Escarce
Carole Roan Gresenz
Jeanette A. Rogowski

Healthcare Markets, the Safety Net and Access to Care Among the Uninsured

w10796 Ted Joyce
Diane Gibson
Silvie Colman

The Changing Association Between Prenatal Participation in WIC and Birth Outcomes in New York City

w10782 Jeffrey R. Brown
Amy Finkelstein

Supply or Demand: Why is the Market for Long-Term Care Insurance So Small?

w10762 Nancy E. Reichman
Hope Corman
Kelly Noonan

Effects of Child Health on Sources of Public Support

w10759 Isaac Ehrlich
Yong Yin

Explaining Diversities in Age-Specific Life Expectancies and Values of Life Saving: A Numerical Analysis

w10757 Kanika Kapur
Jeannette A. Rogowski
Vicki A. Freedman
Steven L. wickstrom
John L. Adams
Jose J. Escarce

Socioeconomic Status and Medical Care Expenditures in Medicare Managed Care

w10745 Jody Sindelar
Todd Olmstead

Does the Impact of Managed Care on Substance Abuse Treatment Services Vary By Profit Status?

w10738 Avi Dor
William Encinosa

How Does Cost-Sharing Affect Drug Purchases? Insurance Regimes in the Private Market for Prescription Drugs

w10737 Robert E. Hall
Charles I. Jones

The Value of Life and the Rise in Health Spending

w10736 Phillip J. Cook
Jens Ludwig

The Social Costs of Gun Ownership

w10715 Sandra L. Decker
Dahlia K. Remler

How Much Might Universal Health Insurance Reduce Socioeconomic Disparities in Health? A Comparison of the US and Canada

w10709 Katherine Baicker
Amitabh Chandra

The Effect of Malpractice Liability on the Delivery of Health Care

w10705 Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat
Jonathan Gruber
Phillip B. Levine

Abortion Legalization and Lifecycle Fertility

w10700 Thomas C. Buchmueller
Mireille Jacobson
Cheryl Wold

How Far to the Hospital? The Effect of Hospital Closures on Access to Care

w10699 Sanders Korenman
Ted Joyce
Robert Kaestner
Jennifer Walper

What Did the "Illegitimacy Bonus" Reward?

w10698 Alvin E. Roth
Tayfun Sonmez
M. Utku Unver

Pairwise Kidney Exchange

w10691 Christopher J. Ruhm
Maternal Employment and Adolescent Development

w10688 Hope Corman
Kelly Noonan
Nancy E. Reichman
Dhaval Dave

Demand for Illicit Drugs by Pregnant Women

w10677 David Becker
Daniel Kessler
Mark McClellan

Detecting Medicare Abuse

w10669 Angus Deaton
Health in an Age of Globalization

w10648 Dhaval Dave
Illicit Drug Use Among Arrestees and Drug Prices

w10620 Robert C. Merton
Zvi Bodie

The Design of Financial Systems: Towards a Synthesis of Function and Structure

w10619 Dhaval Dave
The Effects of Cocaine and Heroin Prices on Drug-Related Emergency Department Visits

w10608 Jayanta Bhattacharya
Janet Currie
Steven Haider

Breakfast of Champions? The School Breakfast Program and the Nutrition of Children and Families

w10604 Alberto Abadie
Sebastien Gay

The Impact of Presumed Consent Legislation on Cadaveric Organ Donation: A Cross Country Study

w10596 Marcella Alsan
David E. Bloom
David Canning

The Effect of Population Health on Foreign Direct Investment

w10564 Ted Joyce
Further Tests of Abortion and Crime

w10552 Douglas Almond
Kenneth Y. Chay
David S. Lee

The Costs of Low Birth Weight

w10549 Marianne Bitler
Jonah Gelbach
Hilary Hoynes

Welfare Reform and Health

w10542 Sean Nicholson
How Much Do Medical Students Know About Physician Income?

w10536 Patricia M. Danzon
Andrew Epstein
Sean Nicholson

Mergers and Acquisitions in the Pharmaceutical and Biotech Industries

w10516 Dana Goldman
Darius Lakdawalla
Neeraj Sood

HIV Breakthroughs and Risk Sexual Behavior

w10511 David M. Cutler
Grant Miller

The Role of Public Health Improvements in Health Advances: The 20th Century United States

w10508 John Cawley
Sheldon Danziger

Obesity as a Barrier to the Transition from Welfare to Work

w10499 David G. Blanchflower
Andrew J. Oswald

Money, Sex, and Happiness: An Empirical Study

w10489 David M. Cutler
Robert S. Huckman
Mary Beth Landrum

The Role of Information in Medical Markets: An Analysis of Publicly Reported Outcomes in Cardiac Surgery

w10467 Marc T. Law
Sukkoo Kim

Specialization and Regulation: The Rise of Professionals and the Emergence of Occupational Licensing Regulation

w10465 John Cawley
David C. Grabowski
Richard A. Hirth

Factor Substitution and Unobserved Factor Quality in Nursing Homes

w10464 Mark V. Pauly
Olivia Mitchell
Yuhui Zeng

Death Spiral or Euthanasia? The Demise of Generous Group Health Insurance Coverage

w10459 Erdal Tekin
Child Care Subsidy Receipt, Employment, and Child Care Choices of Single Mothers

w10445 Anna Aizer
Adriana Lleras-Muney
Mark Stabile

Access to Care, Provider Choice and Racial Disparities

w10440 Katherine Baicker
Douglas Staiger

Fiscal Shenanigans, Targeted Federal Health Care Funds, and Patient Mortality

w10437 Avi Dor
Siran M. Koroukian
Michael Grossman

Managed Care Discounting: Evidence from the MarketScan Database

w10435 Janet Currie
Mark Stabile

Child Mental Health and Human Capital Accumulation: The Case of ADHD

w10409 Jeffrey E. Harris
Beatriz Lopez-Valcarcel

Asymmetric Social Interaction in Economics: Cigarette Smoking Among Young People in the United States, 1992-1999

w10377 Avi Dor
Michael Grossman
Siran M.Koroukian

Transaction Prices and Managed Care Discounting for Selected Medical Technologies: A Bargaining Approach

w10345 Jay Bhattacharya
Darius Lakdawalla

Time-Inconsistency and Welfare

w10311 Robert W. Fogel
Changes in the Disparities in Chronic Disease during the Course of the Twentieth Century

w10266 Thomas J. Kniesner
James P. Ziliak
W. Kip Viscusi

Life-Cycle Consumption and the Age-Adjusted Value of Life

w10251 Janet Currie
Matthew Neidell

Air Pollution and Infant Health: What Can We Learn From California's Recent Experience

w10214 Ted Joyce
Robert Kaestner
Sanders Korenman
Stanley Henshaw

Family Cap Provisions and Changes in Births and Abortions

w10206 Pinka Chatterji
Sara Markowitz

Does the Length of Maternity Leave Affect Maternal Health?

w10204 Gautam Gowrisankaran
Robert J. Town

Managed Care, Drug Benefits and Mortality: An Analysis of the Elderly

w10199 Joseph E. Aldy
W. Kip Viscusi

Age Variations in Workers' Value of Statistical Life


2003
w10127 Nancy Dean Beaulieu
Health Plan Conversions: Are They in the Public Interest?

w10122 Rajeev Dehejia
Adriana Lleras-Muney

The Timing of Births: Is the Health of Infants Counter-Cyclical?

w10092 John Cawley
Kosali I. Simon

Health Insurance Coverage and the Macroeconomy

w10062 William H. Crown
Ernst R. Berndt
Onur Baser
Stan N. Finkelstein
Whitney P. Witt

Benefit Plan Design and Prescription Drug Utilization Among Asthmatics: Do Patient Copayments Matter?

w10053 Kenneth Y. Chay
Michael Greenstone

Air Quality, Infant Mortality, and the Clean Air Act of 1970

w10046 Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
Beau Kilmer

Marijuana and Crime: Is there a Connection Beyond Prohibition?

w10045 Pinka Chatterji
Illicit Drug Use and Educational Attainment

w10038 Daron Acemoglu
Joshua Linn

Market Size in Innovation: Theory and Evidence From the Pharmaceutical Industry

w10034 Robert Kaestner
Elizabeth Tarlov

Changes in the Welfare Caseload and the Health of Low-educated Mothers

w10033 Robert Kaestner
Neeraj Kaushal

Welfare Reform and Health Insurance Coverage of Low-Income Families

w10017 Jason Barro
Nancy Beaulieu

Selection and Improvement: Physician Responses to Financial Incentives

w10012 Jin-Tan Liu
James K. Hammitt

Effects of Disease Type and Latency on the Value of Mortality Risk

w10011 Jin-Tan Liu
James K. Hammitt
Jung-Der Wang
Meng-Wen Tsou

Valuation of the Risk of SARS in Taiwan

w10002 Alvin E. Roth
Tayfun Sonmez
M. Utku Unver

Kidney Exchange

w9996 M. Kate Bundorf
The Effects of Offering Health Plan Choice within Employment-Based Purchasing Groups

w9994 Jonathan Klick
Sara Markowitz

Are Mental Health Insurance Mandates Effective? Evidence from Suicides

w9963 Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
Karen E. Ross
Jeanne Ringel

Does Marijuana Use Impair Human Capital Formation?

w9957 Amy Finkelstein
Kathleen McGarry

Private Information and its Effect on Market Equilibrium: New Evidence from Long-Term Care Insurance

w9955 Daniel Kessler
Mark B. McClellan

Advance Directives and Medical Treatment at the End of Life

w9952 Alison Evans Cuellar
Sara Markowitz
Anne M. Libby

The Relationships between Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment and Juvenile Crime

w9937 Sean Nicholson
Kate Bundorf
Rebecca M. Stein
Daniel Polsky

The Magnitude and Nature of Risk Selection in Employer-Sponsored Health Plans

w9925 Mark V. Pauly
Kate H. Withers
Krupa Subramanian-Viswana
Jean Lemaire
John C. Hershey

Price Elasticity of Demand for Term Life Insurance and Adverse Selection

w9919 Mark V. Pauly
Yuhui Zeng

Adverse Selection and the Challenges to Stand-Alone Prescription Drug Insurance

w9918 Hope Corman
Nancy E. Reichman
Kelly Noonan

Mothers' and Fathers' Labor Supply in Fragile Families: The Role of Child Health

w9912 Stephen T. Parente
David Salkever
Joan DaVanzo

The Role of Consumer Knowledge of Insurance Benefits in the Demand for Preventative Health

w9907 Anna Aizer
Jeffrey Grogger

Parental Medicaid Expansions and Health Insurance Coverage

w9901 Dalton Conley
Kate Strully
Neil G. Bennett

A Pound of Flesh or Just Proxy? Using Twin Differences to Estimate the Effect of Birth Weight on Life Chances

w9888 Bradley Herring
Mark Pauly

Incentive-Compatible Guaranteed Renewable Health Insurance

w9874 Patricia M. Danzon
Y. Richard Wang
Liang Wang

The Impact of Price Regulation on the Launch Delay of New Drugs - Evidence from Twenty-Five Major Markets in the 1990s

w9871 Leemore S. Dafny
Entry Deterrence in Hospital Procedure Markets: A Simple Model of Learning-By-Doing

w9870 Robert W. Fogel
Chulhee Lee

Who Gets Health Care?

w9863 Jay Bhattacharya
Dana Goldman
Neeraj Sood

Market Evidence of Misperceived Prices and Mistaken Mortality Risks

w9855 Michael Smart
Mark Stabile

Tax Credits and the Use of Medical Care

w9852 Louis Kaplow
The Value of a Statistical Life and the Coefficient of Relative Risk Aversion

w9847 Michael Chernew
Gautam Gowrisankaran
Catherine McLaughlin
Teresa Gibson

Quality and Employers' Choice of Health Plan

w9827 William H. Dow
Kristine A. Gonzalez
Luis Rosero-Bixby

Aggregation and Insurance Mortality Estimation

w9826 Helen Levy
Thomas DeLeire

What Do People Buy When They Don't Buy Health Insurance And What Does that Say about Why They are Uninsured?

w9821 Anne C. Case
Angus Deaton

Broken Down by Work and Sex: How Our Health Declines

w9812 Jonathan Meer
Harvey S. Rosen

Insurance and the Utilization of Medical Services

w9803 John C. Ham
Lara D. Shore-Sheppard

Did Expanding Medicaid Affect Welfare Participation?

w9797 Kenneth Leonard
Joshua Graff Zivin

Outcome Versus Service Based Payment in Health Care: Lessons from African Traditional Healers

w9790 John A. Tauras
Lan Liang

The Impact of Physician Intervention and Tobacco Control Policies on Average Daily Cigarette Consumption Among Adult Smokers

w9781 George J. Borjas
Welfare Reform, Labor Supply, and Health Insurance in the Immigrant Population

w9774 Avi Dor
Joseph Sudano
David W. Baker

The Effects of Private Insurance on Measures of Health: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

w9769 Robert Kaestner
Won Chan Lee

The Effect of Welfare Reform on Prenatal Care and Birth Weight

w9765 Gary S. Becker
Tomas J. Philipson
Rodrigo R. Soares

The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality

w9754 Frank R. Lichtenberg
The impact of new drug launches on longevity: evidence from longitudinal disease-level data from 52 countries, 1982-2001

w9750 Frank R. Lichtenberg
Joel Waldfogel

Does Misery Love Company? Evidence from pharmaceutical markets before and after the Orphan Drug Act

w9738 Sherry Glied
Adriana Lleras-Muney

Health Inequality, Education and Medical Innovation

w9690 Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
Jamie F. Chriqui
Joanna King

Marijuana Decriminalization: What does it mean in the United States?

w9689 Jeffrey A. Miron
The Effect of Drug Prohibition on Drug Prices: Evidence from the Markets for Cocaine and Heroin

w9681 Angela K. Dills
Jeffrey K. Miron

Alcohol Prohibition and Cirrhosis

w9676 Henry Saffer
Dhaval Dave

Alcohol Advertising and Alcohol Consumption by Adolescents

w9665 David Blau
Erdal Tekin

The Determinants and Consequences of Child Care Subsidies for Single Mothers

w9638 Pinka Chatterji
Dhaval Dave
Robert Kaestner
Sara Markowitz

Alcohol Abuse and Suicide Attempts Among Youth - Correlation or Causation?

w9630 Pinka Chatterji
Kevin Frick

Does Returning to Work After Childbirth Affect Breastfeeding Practices?

w9615 Patricia M. Danzon
Sean Nicholson
Nuno Sousa Pereira

Productivity in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology R&D: The Role of Experience and Alliances

w9610 Nancy E. Reichman
Hope Corman
Kelly Noonan

Effects of Child Health on Parents' Relationship Status

w9598 Tomas Philipson
Stephane Mechoulan

Intellectual Property & External Consumption Effects: Generalizations from Pharmaceutical Markets

w9567 Jonathan Gruber
Ebonya Washington

Subsidies to Employee Health Insurance Premiums and the Health Insurance Market

w9561 John Cawley
Sara Markowitz
John Tauras

Lighting Up and Slimming Down: The Effects of Body Weight and Cigarette Prices on Adolescent Smoking Initiation

w9540 Dana P. Goldman
Neeraj Sood
Arleen Leibowitz

The Reallocation of Compensation in Response to Health Insurance Premium Increases

w9513 Amitabh Chandra
Jonathan Skinner

Geography and Racial Health Disparities

w9507 Laura Argys
Naci Mocan

Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die? An Analysis of Prisoners on Death Row in the United States

w9468 Christopher J. Ruhm
Healthy Living in Hard Times

w9446 David Cutler
Edward Glaeser
Jesse Shapiro

Why Have Americans Become More Obese?


2002
w9406 Theodore Joyce
Robert Kaestner
Sanders Korenman

Welfare Reform and Non-Marital Fertility in the 1990s: Evidence from Birth Records

w9405 Anthony T. LoSasso
Thomas C. Buchmueller

The Effect of the State Children's Health Insurance Program on Health Insurance Coverage

w9399 Neil G. Bennett
Hsien-Hen Lu
Younghwan Song

Welfare Reform and Changes in the Economic Well-Being of Children

w9396 Dora L. Costa
Matthew E. Kahn

Changes in the Value of Life: 1940-1980

w9394 Shin-Yi Chou
Jin-Tan Liu
James K. Hammitt

Health Insurance and Households' Precautionary Behaviors - An Unusual Natural Experiment

w9357 Ulf-G. Gerdtham
Christopher J. Ruhm

Deaths Rise in Good Economic Times: Evidence From the OECD

w9350 Jeff DeSimone
Determinants of Drug Injection Behavior: Economic Factors, HIV Injection Risk and Needle Exchange Programs

w9329 B. Douglas Bernheim
Antonio Rangel

Addiction and Cue-Conditioned Cognitive Processes

w9325 Charles I. Jones
Why Have Health Expenditures as a Share fo GDP Risen So Much?

w9303 Frank R. Lichtenberg
Tomas J. Philipson

The Dual Effects of Intellectual Property Regulations: Within- and Between- Patent Competition in the US Pharmaceuticals Industry

w9249 Donald S. Kenkel
Robert R. Reed III
Ping Wang

Rational Addiction, Peer Externalities and Long Run Effects of Public Policy

w9248 Sheng-Wen Chang
N. Edward Coulson
Ping Wang

Optimal Drug Policy in Low-Income Neighborhoods

w9247 Shin-Yi Chou
Michael Grossman
Henry Saffer

An Economic Analysis of Adult Obesity: Results from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

w9245 Greg Coleman
Michael Grossman
Ted Joyce

The Effect of Cigarette Excise Taxes on Smoking Before, During and After Pregnancy

w9244 Michael Grossman
Sara Markowitz

I Did What Last Night?!!! Adolescent Risky Sexual Behaviors and Substance Use

w9238 Thomas C. Buchmueller
Agnes Couffinhal
Michel Grignon
Marc Perronin

Access to Physician Services: Does Supplemental Insurance Matter? Evidence from France

w9231 Charles H. Mullin
Ping Wang

The Timing of Childbearing among Heterogeneous Women in Dynamic General Equilibrium

w9229 James W. Hughes
Michael J. Moore
Edward A. Snyder

"Napsterizing" Pharmaceuticals: Access, Innovation, and Consumer Welfare

w9216 Michael Grossman
Robert Kaestner
Sara Markowitz

Get High and Get Stupid: The Effect of Alcohol and Marijuana Use on Teen Sexual Behavior

w9215 Darius Lakdawalla
George Zanjani

Insurance, Self-Protection, and the Economics of Terrorism

w9197 Stephen E. Snyder
William N. Evans

The Impact of Income on Mortality: Evidence from the Social Security Notch

w9193 Kerwin Kofi Charles
Melvin Stephens Jr.

Abortion Legalization and Adolescent Substance Use

w9185 Adriana Lleras-Muney
Frank R. Lichtenberg

The Effect of Education on Medical Technology Adoption: Are the More Educated More Likely to Use New Drugs

w9073 Mark Coppejans
Holger Sieg

Price Uncertainty, Tax Policy, and Addiction: Evidence and Implications

w9038 Mireia Jofre-Bonet
Jody L. Sindelar

Drug Treatment as a Crime Fighting Tool

w9021 Phillip B. Levine
The Impact of Social Policy and Economic Activity Throughout the Fertility Decision Tree

w9003 Jayanta Bhattacharya
Steven Haider
Janet Currie

Food Insecurity or Poverty? Measuring Need-Related Dietary Adequacy

w8986 Adriana Lleras-Muney
The Relationship Between Education and Adult Mortality in the United States

w8962 Jonathan Gruber
Anindya Sen
Mark Stabile

Estimating Price Elasticities When there is Smuggling: The Sensitivity of Smoking to Price in Canada

w8946 Darius Lakdawalla
Tomas Philipson

The Growth of Obesity and Technological Change: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination

w8936 Robert Kaestner
Lisa Dubay
Genevieve Kenney

Medicaid Managed Care and Infant Health: A National Evaluation

w8932 Robert Kaestner
June O'Neill

Has Welfare Reform Changed Teenage Behaviors?

w8926 Philip J. Cook
Jens Ludwig

The Effects of Gun Prevalence on Burglary: Deterrence vs Inducement

w8844 Brett Katzman
Sara Markowitz
Kerry Anne McGeary

The Impact of Lending, Borrowing, and Anti-Smoking Policies on Cigarette Consumption by Teens

w8836 William J. Collins
Melissa A. Thomasson

Exploring the Racial Gap in Infant Mortality Rates, 1920-1970

w8813 Phillip B. Levine
Douglas Staiger

Abortion as Insurance

w8810 Sara Markowitz
Pinka Chatterji
Robert Kaestner
Dhaval Dave

Substance Use and Suicidal Behaviors Among Young Adults

w8802 David M. Cutler
Health Care and the Public Sector

w8777 Jonathan Gruber
Botond Koszegi

A Theory of Government Regulation of Addictive Bads: Optimal Tax Levels and Tax Incidence for Cigarette Excise Taxation

w8770 Patricia M. Anderson
Kristin F. Butcher
Phillip B. Levine

Maternal Employment and Overweight Children

w8702 Jenny Williams
Frank J. Chaloupka
Henry Wechsler

Are There Differential Effects of Price and Policy on College Students' Drinking Intensity?

w8699 Henry Saffer
Dhaval Dave

Mental Illness and the Demand for Alcohol, Cocaine and Cigarettes


2001
w8691 Matthew C. Farrelly
Terry F. Pechacek
Frank J. Chaloupka

The Impact of Tobacco Control Program Expenditures on Aggregate Cigarette Sales: 1981-1998

w8639 H. Naci Mocan
R. Kaj Gittings

Pardons, Executions and Homicide

w8571 Philip J. Cook
John H. Laub

After the Epidemic: Recent Trends in Youth Violence in the United States

w8570 Deborah Azrael
Philip J. Cook
Matthew Miller

State and Local Prevalence of Firearms Ownership: Measurement, Structure, and Trends

w8562 Dhaval Dave
Robert Kaestner

Alcohol Taxes and Labor Market Outcomes

w8531 Joseph P. Newhouse
Medicare Policy in the 1990s

w8511 Christopher J. Ruhm
William E. Black

Does Drinking Really Decrease in Bad Times?

w8489 Ilyana Kuziemko
Steven D. Levitt

An Empirical Analysis of Imprisoning Drug Offenders

w8470 Dov Chernichovsky
A Fuzzy Logic Approach Toward Solving the Analytic Maze of Health System Financing

w8447 Christopher J. Ruhm
Economic Expansions Are Unhealthy: Evidence from Microdata

w8415 Dov Chernichovsky
Sara Markowitz

Toward a Framework for Improving Health Care Financing for an Aging Population: The Case of Israel

w8401 Jenny Williams
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
Frank J. Chaloupka
Henry Wechsler

Alcohol and Marijuana Use Among College Students: Economic Complements or Substitutes?

w8332 John A. Tauras
Frank J. Chaloupka

The Demand for Nicotine Replacement Therapies

w8331 John A. Tauras
Patrick M. O'Malley
Lloyd D. Johnston

Effects of Price and Access Laws on Teenage Smoking Initiation: A National Longitudinal Analysis

w8328 Dana Goldman
Darius Lakdawalla

Understanding Health Disparities Across Education Groups

w8319 Ted Joyce
Did Legalized Abortion Lower Crime?

w8247 Darius Lakdawalla
Dana Goldman
Jay Bhattacharya

Are the Young Becoming More Disabled?

w8241 Orazio P. Attanasio
Carl Emmerson

Differential Mortality in the UK

w8238 Thomas C. Buchmueller
John DiNardo

Union Effects on Health Insurance Provision and Coverage in the United States

w8185 Dahlia K. Remler
Jason E. Rachlin
Sherry A. Glied

What can the take-up of other programs teach us about how to improve take-up of health insurance programs?

w8126 Tomas J. Philipson
Richard A. Posner

Antitrust and the Not-For-Profit Sector

w8123 Avi Dor
Administered Prices and Suboptimal Prevention: Evidence from the Medicare Dialysis Program


2000
w8021 Jonathan Gruber
Michael Lettau

How Elastic is the Firm's Demand for Health Insurance?

w7990 David Figlio
Jens Ludwig

Sex, Drugs, and Catholic Schools: Private Schooling and Non-Market Adolescent Behaviors

w7982 Sara Markowitz
An Economic Analysis of Alcohol, Drugs, and Violent Crime in the National Crime Victimization Survey

w7979 Michael J. Moore
James W. Hughes

The Health Care Consequences of Smoking and its Regulation

w7895 John Mullahy
Live Long, Live Well: Quantifying the Health of Heterogenous Populations

w7881 Dov Chernichovsky
The Public-Private Mix in the Modern Health Care System - Concepts, Issues, and Policy Options Revisited

w7841 John Cawley
Body Weight and Women's Labor Market Outcomes

w7760 David M. Cutler
Jonathan Gruber
Raymond S. Hartman
M.B. Landrum
J. Newhouse
Meredith B. Rosenthal

The Economic Impacts of the Tobacco Settlement

w7758 Henry Saffer
Alcohol Consumption and Alcohol Advertising Bans

w7747 D. Cutler
R.G. Frank
C. King III
M.B. Rosenthal
E.R. Vigdor
A.M. Epstein
R.S. Hartman
J.P. Newhouse

How Good a Deal Was the Tobacco Settlement?: Assessing Payments to Massachusetts

w7717 Michael Kremer
Creating Markets for New Vaccines Part II: Design Issues

w7716 Michael Kremer
Creating Markets for New Vaccines Part I: Rationale

w7713 David M. Cutler
Edward Glaeser
Karen Norberg

Explaining the Rise in Youth Suicide

w7703 R. L. Pacula
M. Grossman
F. J. Chaloupka
P. M. O'Malley
L. Johnston
M. C. Farrelly

Marijuana and Youth

w7692 Pinka Chatterji
Sara Markowitz

The Impact of Maternal Alcohol and Illicit Drug Use on Children's Behavior Problems: Evidence from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey...

w7673 H. Naci Mocan
Erdal Tekin
Jeffrey S. Zax

The Demand for Medical Care in Urban China

w7667 Janet Currie
Jeffrey Grogger

Medicaid Expansions and Welfare Contractions: Offsetting Effects on Prenatal Care and Infant Health?

w7666 Christopher J. Ruhm
Parental Employment and Child Cognitive Development

w7535 Sandra L. Decker
Amy Ellen Schwartz

Cigarettes and Alcohol: Substitutes or Complements?

w7506 Jonathan Gruber
Youth Smoking in the U.S.: Prices and Policies

w7500 Sara Markowitz
The Role of Alcohol and Drug Consumption in Determining Physical Fights and Weapon Carrying by Teenagers

w7481 Sara Markowitz
Criminal Violence and Alcohol Beverage Control: Evidence from an International Study


1999
w7423 Tomas J. Philipson
Richard A. Posner

The Long-Run Growth in Obesity as a Function of Technological Change

w7412 John A. Tauras
The Transition to Smoking Cessation: Evidence from Multiple Failure Duration Analysis

w7383 Stephen L. Mehay
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula

The Effectiveness of Workplace Drug Prevention Policies: Does 'Zero Tolerance' Work?

w7356 Alec Ian Gershberg
Michael Grossman
Fred Goldman

Competition and the Cost of Capital Revisited: Special Authorities and Underwriters in the Market for Tax-emempt Hospital Bonds

w7262 John A. Tauras
Frank J. Chaloupka

Determinants of Smoking Cessation: An Analysis of Young Adult Men and Women

w7258 Douglas Staiger
Joanne Spetz
Ciaran Phibbs

Is There Monopsony in the Labor Market? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

w7221 Alec Ian Gershberg
Michael Grossman
Fred Goldman

Health Care Capital Financing Agencies: The Intergovernmental Roles of Quasi-Government Authorities and the Impact on the Cost of Capital

w7205 Sherry Glied
Managed Care

w7204 Sherry Glied
The Value of Reductions in Child Injury Mortality in the U.S.

w7130 Jeffrey A. Miron
The Effect of Alcohol Prohibition on Alcohol Consumption

w7129 Michael Grossman
Sara Markowitz

Alcohol Regulation and Violence on College Campuses

w7114 Henry Saffer
Frank Chaloupka

State Drug Control and Illicit Drug Participation

w7078 Michael Grossman
The Human Capital Model of the Demand for Health

w7052 Richard G. Frank
Thomas G. McGuire

Economics and Mental Health

w7047 Frank J. Chaloupka
Kenneth E. Warner

The Economics of Smoking

w6963 Alvin E. Roth
Elliott Peranson

The Redesign of the Matching Market for American Physicians: Some Engineering Aspects of Economic Design

w6958 Henry Saffer
Frank Chaloupka

Tobacco Advertising: Economic Theory and International Evidence

w6950 Jeffrey A. Miron
Violence and the U.S. Prohibition of Drugs and Alcohol

w6940 Matthew C. Farrelly
Jeremy W. Bray
Gary A. Zarkin
Brett W. Wendling
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula

The Effects of Prices and Policies on the Demand for Marijuana: Evidence from the National Household Surveys on Drug Abuse

w6939 Frank J. Chaloupka
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
Matthew C. Farrelly
Lloyd D. Johnston
Patrick M. O'Malley

Do Higher Cigarette Prices Encourage Youth to Use Marijuana?

w6937 John A. Tauras
Frank J. Chaloupka

Price, Clean Indoor Air, and Cigarette Smoking: Evidence from the Longitudinal Data for Young Adults

w6359 Sara Markowitz
Michael Grossman

Alcohol Regulation and Violence Towards Children

w5713 Michael Grossman
Frank J. Chaloupka
Charles C. Brown

The Demand for Cocaine by Young Adults: A Rational Addiction Approach

w6917 Martin Feldstein
Prefunding Medicare

w6916 Sara Markowitz
The Price of Alcohol, Wife Abuse, and Husband Abuse

w6887 Robert Kaestner
Theodore Joyce
Andrew Racine

Does Publicly Provided Health Insurance Improve the Health of Low-Income Children in the United States

w6872 Thomas Buchmueller
John DiNardo

Did Community Rating Induce an Adverse Selection Death Spiral? Evidencefrom New York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut


1998
w6838 Richard G. Frank
Thomas G. McGuire

Parity for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Care Under Managed Care

w6865 Martin Gaynor
Deborah Haas-Wilson
William B. Vogt

Are Invisible Hands Good Hands? Moral Hazard, Competition, and the Second Best in Health Care Markets

w6755 Victor R. Fuchs
Health Care for the Elderly: How Much? Who Will Pay for It?

w6710 Victor R. Fuchs
Health, Government, and Irving Fisher

w6629 Sara Markowitz
Michael Grossman

The Effects of Alcohol Regulation on Physical Child Abuse

w6554 Christopher J. Ruhm
Parental Leave and Child Health

w6541 Frank J. Chaloupka
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula

An Examination of Gender and Race Differences in Youth Smoking Responsiveness to Price and Tobacco Control Policies

w6527 Esel Y. Yazici
Robert Kaestner

Medicaid Expansions and The Crowding Out of Private Health Insurance

w6487 Stephen T. Higgins
Applying Behavioral Economics to the Challenge of Reducing Cocaine Abuse

w6486 Robert L. Ohsfeldt
Raymond G. Boyle
Eli L. Capilouto

Tobacco Taxes, Smoking Restrictions, and Tobacco Use

w6432 Henry Saffer
Frank Chaloupka

Demographic Differentials in the Demand for Alcohol and Illicit Drugs

w6423 Patricia Born
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula

Does Spending on Medical Services Change as HMOs Grow and Mature?

w6415 Nancy M. Petry
Warren K. Bickel

A Behavioral Economic Analysis of Polydrug Abuse in Heroin Addicts

w6411 Frank J. Chaloupka
Michael Grossman
John A. Tauras

The Demand for Cocaine and Marijuana by Youth

w6410 Rudy E. Vuchinich
Cathy A. Simpson

Delayed Reward Discounting in Alcohol Abuse

w6407 Marilyn E. Carroll
Income Alters the Relative Reinforcing Effects of Drug and Nondrug Reinforcers

w6406 Robert Kaestner
Does Drug Use Cause Poverty?

w6402 Kenneth Silverman
Elias Robles

Employment as a Drug Abuse Treatment Intervention: A Behavioral Economic Analysis

w6401 Don Kenkel
Ping Wang

Are Alcoholics in Bad Jobs?

w6348 Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
Adolescent Alcohol and Marijuana Consumption: Is There Really a Gateway Effect?

w6346 Daniel P. Kessler
Mark McClellan

The Effects of Malpractice Pressure and Liability Reforms on Physicians' Perceptions of Medical Care


1997
w6277 Sherry Glied
Mark Stabile

Avoiding Health Insurance Crowd-Out: Evidence from the Medicare as Secondary Payer Legislation

w6276 Sherry Glied
Mark Stabile

Graduation to Health Insurance Coverage: 1981-1996

w6125 A. Bowen Garrett
Sherry Glied

The Effect of U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Sullivan v. Zebley on Child SSI and AFDC Enrollment

w4852 Martin Feldstein
Jonathan Gruber

A Major Risk Approach to Health Insurance Reform

w6082 Thomas S. Dee
William N. Evans

Teen Drinking and Education Attainment: Evidence From Two-Sample Instrumental Variables (TSIV) Estimates

w4890 John R. Graham
Campbell R. Harvey

Market Timing Ability and Volatility Implied in Investment Newletters' Asset Allocation Recommendations

w6042 Charles Mullin
Tomas Philipson

The Future of Old-Age Longevity: Competitive Pricing of Mortality Contingent Claims

w6029 Theodore Joyce
Impact of Augmented Prenatal Care on Birth Outcomes of Medicaid Recipients in New York City

w5998 William N. Evans
Jeanne S. Ringel

Can Higher Cigarette Taxes Improve Birth Outcomes?

w5989 Susan L. Ettner
Richard G. Frank
Ronald C. Kessler

The Impact of Psychiatric Disorders on Labor Market Outcomes


1996
w5813 Ernst R. Berndt
Richard G. Frank
Thomas G. McGuire

Alternate Insurance Arrangements and the Treatment of Depression: What Are the Facts?

w5760 Tomas Philipson
Gary S. Becker

Mortality Contingent Claims, Health Care, and Social Insurance

w5740 Frank J. Chaloupka
Michael Grossman

Price, Tobacco Control Policies and Youth Smoking

w5570 Christopher J. Ruhm
Are Recessions Good For Your Health?

w5567 William N. Evans
Matthew C. Farrelly
Edward Montgomery

Do Workplace Smoking Bans Reduce Smoking?

w5555 Robert Kaestner
Drug Use and AFDC Participation: Is There a Connection?

w4929 Dora L. Costa
Health and Labor Force Participation of Older Men, 1900-1991

w5543 Frank J. Chaloupka
Adit Laixuthai

U.S. Trade Policy and Cigarette Smoking in Asia

w5524 Frank J. Chaloupka
Michael Grossman
John A. Tauras

Public Policy and Youth Smokeless Tobacco Use

w3373 Martin Gaynor
Paul Gertler

Moral Hazard in Partnerships

w5492 Edward Montgomery
John Navin

Cross-State Variation in Medicaid Programs and Female Labor Supply

w5463 Hope Corman
H. Naci Mocan

A Time-Series Analysis of Crime and Drug Use in New York City

w5434 Robert Kaestner
Theodore Joyce
Hassan Wehbeh

The Effect of Maternal Drug Use on Birth Weight: Measurement Error in Binary Variables

w5428 Michael Kremer
"Integrating Behavioral Choice into Epidemiological Models of the AIDS Epidemic"

w5418 Frank R. Lichtenberg
The Effect of Pharmaceutical Utilization and Innovation on Hospitalization and Mortality


1995
w5354 Theodore Joyce
Robert Kaestner

State Reproductive Policies and Adolescent Pregnancy Resolution: The Case of Parental Involvement Laws

w5319 Frank J. Chaloupka
Henry Wechsler

The Impact of Price, Availability, and Alcohol Control Policies on Binge Drinking in College

w5293 H. Naci Mocan
The Child Care Industry: Cost Functions, Efficiency, and Quality

w3700 Richard Frank
Martin Gaynor

Incentives, Optimality, and Publicly Provided Goods: The Case of Mental Health Services

w5273 Hope Corman
The Effects of Low Birthweight and Other Medical Risk Factors on Resource Utilization in the Pre-School Years

w5270 Phillip B. Levine
Tara A. Gustafson
Ann D. Velenchik

More Bad News for Smokers? The Effects of Cigarette Smoking on Labor Market Outcomes

w5257 Robert Kaestner
Hope Corman

The Impact of Child Health and Family Inputs on Child Cognitive Develop-ment

w5248 David S. Salkever
Richard G. Frank

Economic Issues in Vaccine Purchase Arrangements

w5238 Henry Saffer
Frank Chaloupka

The Demand for Illicit Drugs

w5216 William H. Dow
Jessica Holmes
Tomas Philipson
Xavier Sala-i-Martin

Disease Complementarities and the Evaluation of Public Health Interventions

w5200 Michael Grossman
Frank J. Chaloupka
Ismail Sirtalan

An Empirical Analysis of Alcohol Addiction: Results from the Monitoring the Future Panels

w5195 Christopher J. Ruhm
Alcohol Policies and Highway Vehicle Fatalities

w5040 H. Naci Mocan
Quality Adjusted Cost Functions for Child Care Centers

w5123 John Mullahy
Jody L. Sindelar

Employment, Unemployment, and Problem Drinking

w5082 David M. Cutler
Jonathan Gruber

Does Public Insurance Crowd Out Private Insurance?

w5066 Phillip B. Levine
Amy B. Trainor
David J. Zimmerman

The Effect of Medicaid Abortion Funding Restrictions on Abortions, Pregnancies, and Births

w5038 Robert Kaestner
The Effects of Cocaine and Marijuana Use on Marriage and Marital Stability

w5017 Timothy Waidmann
John Bound
Michael Schoenbaum

The Illusion of Failure: Trends in the Self-Reported Health of the U.S. Elderly

w5012 Frank J. Chaloupka
Henry Wechsler

Price, Tobacco Control Policies and Smoking Among Young Adults

w3549 Theodore Joyce
Self-Selection, Prenatal Care, and Birthweight Among Blacks, Whites and Hispanics in New York City


1994
w4949 William N. Evans
Edward Montgomery

Education and Health: Where There's Smoke There's an Instrument

w4942 Michael Kremer
Can Having Fewer Partners Increase Prevalence of Aids?

w4914 Christopher Ruhm
Economic Conditions and Alcohol Problems

w4891 W. Kip Viscusi
Cigarette Taxation and the Social Consequences of Smoking

w4853 Rebecca M. Blank
Christine C. George
Rebecca A. London

State Abortion Rates: The Impact of Policies, Providers, Politics, Demographics, and Economic Environment

w4638 Robert W. Fogel
Economic Growth, Population Theory, and Physiology: The Bearing of Long-Term Processes on the Making of Economic Policy

w4385 Michael Grossman
Frank J. Chaloupka
Henry Saffer
Adit Laixuthai

Effects of Alcohol Price Policy on Youth

w4822 John A. Rizzo
Jody L. Sindelar

Optimal Regulation of Multiply-Regulated Industries: The Case of Physician Services

w3322 Gary S. Becker
Michael Grossman
Kevin M. Murphy

An Empirical Analysis of Cigarette Addiction

w4786 Tetsuji Yamada
Tadashi Yamada
Chang Gun Kim

Effectiveness of Government Policy: An Experience from a National HealthCare System

w4139 Fred Goldman
Michael Grossman
Susan W. Nesbitt
Pamela Mobilia

Determinants of Interest Rates on Tax-Exempt Hospital Bonds

w3430 Martin Gaynor
Solomon Polachek

Measuring Ignorance in the Market: A New Method with an Application to Physician Services

w4708 Henry Saffer
Alcohol Advertising and Motor Vehicle Fatalities

w3923 Richard G. Frank
Martin Gaynor

"Organizational Failure and Government Transfers: Evidence From an Experiment in the Financing of Mental Health Care."

w4673 Theodore Joyce
Andrew D. Racine
Sandra McCalla
Hassan Wehbeh

The Impact of Prenatal Exposure to Cocaine on Newborn Costs and Length of Stay

w3909 John Mullahy
Jody L. Sindelar

Alcoholism, Work, and Income Over the Life Cycle

w4662 Frank J. Chaloupka
Adit Laixuthai

Do Youths Substitute Alcohol and Marijuana? Some Econometric Evidence

w4649 John Mullahy
Jody L. Sindelar

Health, Income, and Risk Aversion: Assessing Some Welfare Costs of Alcoholism and Poor Health

w4644 Janet Currie
Jonathan Gruber

Saving Babies: The Efficacy and Cost of Recent Expansions of Medicaid Eligibility for Pregnant Women


1993
w4497 Tetsuji Yamada
Michael Kendix
Tadashi Yamada

The Impact of Alcohol Consumption and Marijuana Use on High School Graduation

w4409 Hope Corman
Stephen Chaikind

The Effect of Low Birthweight on the Health, Behavior, and School Performance of School-Aged Children

w4406 Janet Currie
Duncan Thomas

Does Head Start Make a Difference?

w3831 Frank J. Chaloupka
Henry Saffer
Michael Grossman

Alcohol Control Policies and Motor Vehicle Fatalities

w3803 Richard G. Frank
David S. Salkever

Pricing, Patent Loss and the Market For Pharmaceuticals

w3694 Theodore J. Joyce
Naci H. Mocan

Unemployment and Infant Health: Times-Series Evidence from the State of Tennessee

w3624 Richard G. Frank
Donna Strobino
David S. Salkever
Catherine A. Jackson

Updated Estimates of the Impact of Prenatal Care on Birthweight Outcomes by Race

w4359 Naci H. Mocan
Kudret Topyan

Illicit Drug Use and Health: Analysis and Projections of New York City Birth Outcomes Using a Kalman Filter Model

w4284 Janet Currie
Duncan Thomas

Medicaid and Medical Care for Children

w3987 Theodore Joyce
Andrew D. Racine
Naci Mocan

The Consequences and Costs of Maternal Substance Abuse in New York City

w4278 Adit Laixuthai
Frank J. Chaloupka

Youth Alcohol Use and Public Policy


1992
w4212 John DiNardo
Thomas Lemieux

Alcohol, Marijuana, and American Youth: The Unintended Effects of Government Regulation

w4187 Robert Kaestner
The Effect of Illicit Drug Use on the Labor Supply of Young Adults

w4180 David E. Bloom
Sherry Glied

Projecting the Number of New AIDS Cases in the U.S.

w4157 Jonathan Gruber
The Efficiency of a Group-Specific Mandated Benefit: Evidence From Health Insurance Benefits for Maternity

w4155 Jonathan S. Feinstein
Edward G. Keating

An Economic Analysis of Life Care

w4147 Daniel Feenberg
Jonathan Skinner

The Risk and Duration of Catastrophic Health Care Expenditures

t0125 Barbara Wolfe
Robert Haveman
Donna Genther
Chong-Bum An

The "Window Problem" in Studies of Children's Attainments: A Methodological Exploration

w4107 Andrew Dick
Alan M. Garber
Thomas MaCurdy

Forecasting Nursing Home Utilization of Elderly Americans

w3052 Henry Saffer
Alcohol Advertising Bans and Alcohol Abuse: An International Perspective


1991
w3268 Frank J. Chaloupka
Rational Addictive Behavior and Cigarette Smoking

w2433 Richard G. Frank
Paul J. Gertler

The Effect of Mental Distress on Income: Results from a Community Survey

w2753 Richard G. Frank
David S. Salkever

Altruism, Rivalry and Crowding-Out in the Nonprofit Firm's Supply of Charity Services: The Case of Hospitals

w3884 Victor R. Fuchs
National Health Insurance Revisited

w3872 Martin Gaynor
Gerard F. Anderson

Hospital Costs and the Cost of Empty Hospital Beds

w3850 Hope Corman
Robert Kaestner

The Effects of Child Health on Marital Status

w3832 Janet Currie
Nancy Cole

Does Participation in Transfer Programs During Pregnancy Improve Birth Weight?

r1593 David E. Bloom
Sherry Glied

Benefits and Costs of HIV Testing

w3783 Mark Johnston
Richard Zeckhauser

The Australian Pharmaceutical Subsidy Gambit: Transmuting Deadweight Loss and Oligopoly Rents to Consumer Surplus

w3639 Alan M. Garber
Thomas E. MaCurdy

Nursing Home Discharges and Exhaustion of Medicare Benefits

w3177 Naci H. Mocan
Business Cycles and Fertility Dynamics in the U.S.: A Vector-Autoregressive Model

w3211 Theodore Joyce
Michael Grossman

The Dynamic Relationship between Low Birthweight and Induced Abortion in New York City: An Aggregate Time-Series Analysis

w2746 Michael Grossman
Theodore J. Joyce

Unobservables, Pregnancy Resolutions, and Birthweight Production Functions in New York City

w2170 Martin Gaynor
Mark Pauly

Alternative Compensation Arrangements and Productive Efficiency in Partnerships: Evidence from Medical Group Practice


1990
w3535 Robert Kaestner
The Effect of Illicit Drug Use on the Wages of Young Adults

w3567 Paul J. Gertler
Donald M. Waldman

Quality Adjusted Cost Functions

w3461 Stephen Chaikind
Hope Corman

The Special Education Costs of Low Birthweight

w2834 Theodore J. Joyce
A Time-Series Analysis of Unemployment and Health: The Case of Birth Outcomes in New York City

r1451 Victor R. Fuchs
James S. Hahn

How Does Canada Do It? A Comparison of Expenditures for Physicians' Services in the United States and Canada

w3082 Michael Grossman
Health Benefits of Increases in Alcohol and Cigarette Taxes

w3002 Theodore J. Joyce
Naci H. Mocan

The Impact of a Ban on Legalized Abortion on Adolescent Childbearing in New York City

w2827 Theodore J. Joyce
Michael Grossman

Pregnancy Resolution as an Indicator of Wantedness and its Impact on the Initiation of Early Prenatal Care

w3286 Robert Moffitt
Barbara Wolfe

The Effect of the Medicaid Program on Welfare Participation and Labor Supply

w2444 Tadashi Yamada
Tetsuji Yamada
Frank Chaloupka

Nutrition and Infant Health in Japan

w3267 Frank J. Chaloupka
Men, Women, and Addiction: The Case of Cigarette Smoking


1989
w3215 Richard G. Frank
Donna Strobino
David S. Salkever
Catherine Jackson

Poverty Programs, Initiation Of Prenatal Care And The Rate Of Low Birthweight Births

w3200 Henry Saffer
Alcohol consumption and Tax Differentials Between Beer, Wine and Spirits

w1866 Martin Gaynor
Internal Non-Price Competition, Pricing, and Incentive Systems in the Cooperative Service Firm: The Case of US Medical Group Practice

w2301 Henry Saffer
Frank Chaloupka

Breath Testing and the Demand for Drunk Driving

w3136 Richard G. Frank
David S. Salkever
Jean Mitchell

Market Forces and the Public Good: Competition Among Hospitals and Provision of Indigent Care

w2010 David S. Salkever
Donald M. Steinwachs

Hospital Admissions, Length of Stay, and Case-Mix Impacts of Per Case Payment: The Maryland Experience

w3020 Robert Haveman
Mark Stone
Barbara Wolfe

Market Work, Wages, and Men's Health

w1928 Theodore J. Joyce
Michael Grossman
Fred Goldman

An Assessment of the Benefits of Air Pollution Control: The Case of Infant Health

w2851 Paul J. Gertler
Medicaid and the Cost of Improving Access to Nursing Home Care

w2843 Alan M. Garber
Thomas E. MaCurdy

Predicting Nursing Home Utilization Among the High-Risk Elderly

w2831 Robert Haveman
Barbara Wolfe
Fung Mey Huang

Disability Status as an Unobservable: Estimates From a Structural Model


1988
w2804 Hope Corman
Michael Grossman
Theodore J. Joyce

Demographic Analysis of Birthweight-Specific Neonatal Mortality

w2749 Alan M. Garber
Joseph P. Fenerty

Costs and Benefits of Prenatal Screening For Cystic Fibrosis

w2728 Philip de Jong
Robert Haveman
Barbara Wolfe

Labor and Transfer Income and Older Women's Work: Estimates From the United States

w2346 Hope Corman
Theodore Joyce
Michael Grossman

A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Strategies to Reduce Infant Mortality

w1852 Douglas Coate
Michael Grossman

Effects of Alcoholic Beverage Prices and Legal Drinking Ages on Youth Alcohol Use

r1058 David E. Bloom
Geoffrey Carliner

"The Economic Impact of AIDS in the United States."

w1020 Fred Goldman
Michael Grossman

The Impact of Public Health Policy: The Case of Community Health Centers

w2711 Douglas Coate
Michael Grossman

Carbon Monoxide in the Ambient Air and Blood Pressure: Evidence From NHANES II and the SAROAD System

w2663 Frank J. Chaloupka
Henry Saffer

The Demand For Cigarettes and Restrictions on Smoking in the Workplace

w2207 Richard G. Frank
Jonathan P. Weiner
Donald M. Steinwachs
David S. Salkever

Economic Rents Derived from Hospital Privileges in the Market for Podiatric Services

w1966 Theodore J. Joyce
The Demand for Health Inputs and Their Impact on the Black Neonatal Mortality Rate in the U.S.


1987
w1982 Henry Saffer
Michael Grossman

Endogenous Drinking Age Laws and Highway Mortality Rates of Young Drivers

w1729 Hope Corman
Theodore J. Joyce
Michael Grossman

Birth Outcome Production Functions in the U.S.

w2442 Tetsuji Yamada
Tadashi Yamada

Social Security and Earlier Retirement in Japan: Cross-Sectional Evidence

w1757 Theodore J. Joyce
The Impact of Induced Abortion on Birth Outcomes in the U.S.

w2328 Alan M. Garber
Long-Term Care, Wealth, and Health of the Disabled Elderly Living in the Community

w2299 Paul J. Gertler
Luis Locay
Warren C. Sanderson

Are User Fees Regressive? The Welfare Implications of Health Care Financing Proposals in Peru

w2278 Jeffrey E. Harris
Delay in Reporting Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

w2269 Robin Allen
Paul J. Gertler

Regulation and the Provision of Quality to Heterogenous Consumers: The Case of Prospective Pricing of Medical Services

t0035 Martin Gaynor
Misperceptions, Moral Hazard, and Incentives in Groups


1986
w2030 Richard G. Frank
Judith R. Lave
Carl A. Taube
Agnes Rupp
Howard H. Goldman

The Impact of Medicare's Prospective Payment System on Psychiatric Patients Treated in Scatterbeds

w1633 David S. Salkever
Donald M. Steinwachs
Agnes Rupp

Hospital Cost and Efficiency Under Per Service and Per Case Payment in Maryland: A Tale of the Carrot and the Stick

w1514 Richard G. Frank
Pricing and Location of Physician Services in Mental Health

w1387 Hope Corman
Michael Grossman

Determinants of Neonatal Mortality Rates in the U.S.: A Reduced Form Model


1985
w1776 Victor R. Fuchs
Has Cost Containment Gone Too Far?

w1751 Paul J. Gertler
A Decomposition of the Elasticity of Medicaid Nursing Home Expenditures Into Price, Quality, and Quantity Effects

w1750 Paul J. Gertler
A Latent Variable Model of Quality Determination

w1691 Paul J. Gertler
Subsidies, Quality, and Regulation in the Nursing Home Industry

w1688 Victor R. Fuchs
Leslie Perreault

The Economics of Reproduction-Related Health Care

w1667 Paul J. Gertler
Regulated Price Discrimination and Quality: The Implications of Medicaid Reimbursement Policy for the Nursing Home Industry

w0835 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Expectations, Life Expectancy, and Economic Behavior

w1605 Victor R. Fuchs
Paying the Piper, Calling the Tune: Implications of Changes in Reimbursement

w0946 David S. Salkever
Cost Implications of Hospital Unionization: A Behavioral Analysis


1984
w1528 Tadashi Yamada
Causal Relationships between Infant Mortality and Fertility in Developedand Less Developed Countries

w1459 Robin C. Sickles
Paul J. Taubman

An Analysis of the Health and Retirement Status of the Elderly

w1418 Henry Saffer
Wages and Working Conditions

w1159 Alan M. Garber
Victor R. Fuchs
James F. Silverman

Case Mix, Costs, and Outcomes: Differences Between Faculty and Community Services in a University Hospital

w1402 Robert W. Fogel
Nutrition and the Decline in Mortality Since 1700: Some Preliminary Findings

w1362 Tadashi Yamada
Tetsuji Yamada

Estimation of a Simultaneous Model of Married Women's Labor Force Participation and Fertility in Urban Japan

w1269 Victor R. Fuchs
"Though Much is Taken" -- Reflections on Aging, Health, and Medical Care


1983
w1206 Tadashi Yamada
Economic Development, Infant Mortality, and Their Dynamics in Latin America

w0768 Phillip Farrell
Victor R. Fuchs

Schooling and Health: The Cigarette Connection

w1093 Tadashi Yamada
Causality and Innovations Between Fertility and Infant Mortality

w1072 Douglas Coate
The Relationship Between Diet, Parent"s Fatness, and Obesity in Childrenand Adolescents

w1062 Paul J. Taubman
Robin C. Sickles

Supplemental Social Insurance and the Health of the Poor

w0764 Eugene M. Lewit
Douglas Coate

The Potential for Using Excise Taxes to Reduce Smoking


1982
w1030 Dennis C. McCornac
The Effects of Government Regulation on Teenage Motor Vehicle Mortality

w1029 Frederic P. Slade
Labor Force Entry and Exit of Older Men: A Longitudinal Study

w0308 Linda N. Edwards
Michael Grossman

Income and Race Differences in Children's Health

w0612 Richard J. Zeckhauser
Donald S. Shepard

The Choice of Health Policies with Heterogeneous Populations

w0611 Paul J. Taubman
Sherwin Rosen

Healthiness, Education, and Marital Status

w0780 Michael Grossman
Government and Health Outcomes

w0609 Robert A. Shakotko
Michael Grossman

Physical Disabilities and Post-Secondary Educational Outcomes

w0539 Victor R. Fuchs
Time Preference and Health: An Exploratory Study

r0283 David S. Salkever
Children's Health Problems: Implications for Parental Labor Supply and Earnings

r0281 Jeffrey E. Harris
Prenatal Medical Care and Infant Mortality

w0907 Fred Goldman
Michael Grossman

The Production and Cost of Ambulatory Medical Care In Community Health Centers

w0875 Friedrich Breyer
Victor R. Fuchs

Risk Attitudes in Health: An Exploratory Study

w0655 Eugene M. Lewit
Douglas Coate
Michael Grossman

The Effects of Government Regulation on Teenage Smoking

w0454 Robert A. Shakotko
Linda N. Edwards
Michael Grossman

An Exploration of the Dynamic Relationship between Health and Cognitive Development in Adolescence

w0860 Frederic P. Slade
Labor Supply under Disability Insurance

w0615 Michael Grossman
Steven Jacobowitz

Variations in Infant Mortality Rates among Counties in the United States: The Roles of Social Policies and Programs


1981
w0813 Frederic P. Slade
Health Care Incentives under Disability Insurance

w0811 Paul J. Taubman
Pensions and Mortality


1980
w0213 Linda N. Edwards
Michael Grossman

The Relationship Between Children's Health and Intellectual Development

w0510 Bernard Friedman
Distributions of Family Hospital and Physician Expenses

w0219 Dov Chernichovsky
Douglas Coate

The Choice of Diet for Young Children and Its Relation to Children's Growth

w0451 Robert A. Shakotko
Dynamic Aspects of of Children's Health, Intellectual Development, and Family Economic Status

w0419 William Gould
Richard Thaler

Public Policy Toward Life Saving: Maximize Lives Saved vs. Consumer Sovereignty


1979
w0417 Gilbert R. Ghez
Michael Grossman

Preventive Care, Care for Children and National Health Insurance

w0416 Dov Chernichovsky
Douglas Coate

An Economic Analysis of the Diet, Growth, and Health of Young Children in the United States

w0398 Linda N. Edwards
Michael Grossman

Adolescent Health, Family Background, and Preventive Medical Care

r0017 Victor R. Fuchs
Economics, Health, and Post-Industrial Society

w0240 Ann D. Colle
Michael Grossman

Determinants of Pediatric Care Utilization

w0134 Fred Goldman
Michael Grossman

The Demand for Pediatric Care: An Hedonic Approach


1978
w0256 Linda N. Edwardq
Michael Grossman

Children's Health and the Family

w0236 Victor R. Fuchs
The Supply of Surgeons and the Demand for Operations


1977
w0211 Victor R. Fuchs
The Service Industries and U.S. Economic Growth Since World War II


1976
w0129 Michael Grossman
A Survey of Recent Research in Health Economics


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