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Social Comparisons and Adolescent Body Misperception: Evidence From School Entry Cutoffs. 社会比较与青少年身体误解：来自入学门槛的证据。

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Health economics Pub Date : 2025-06-30 DOI: 10.1002/hec.4980

Christopher S Carpenter, Brandyn F Churchill

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Deploying Differential Distance as an Instrumental Variable: Alternative Forms, Estimators, and Specifications. 将差分距离作为工具变量：替代形式、估计器和规格。

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Health economics Pub Date : 2025-06-29 DOI: 10.1002/hec.70003

Donghoon Lee, Anirban Basu

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A Simple Measure of Catastrophic Health Expenditures. 灾难性医疗支出的简单衡量。

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Health economics Pub Date : 2025-06-25 DOI: 10.1002/hec.70007

Tomson Ogwang, Germano Mwabu

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Effects of Health Shocks on Adult Children's Labor Market Outcomes and Well-Being. 健康冲击对成年子女劳动力市场结果和福祉的影响。

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Health economics Pub Date : 2025-06-25 DOI: 10.1002/hec.70005

Eduardo Ramirez Lizardi, Elisabeth Fevang, Knut Røed, Henning Øien

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Decomposing Racial Disparities in Severe Maternal Morbidity Within Insurance Groups. 分解种族差异在严重产妇发病率保险组。

IF 2 3区医学

Health economics Pub Date : 2025-06-21 DOI: 10.1002/hec.70002

E Kathleen Adams, Sara Markowitz, Michael R Kramer, Peter J Joski, Anne L Dunlop

{"title":"Decomposing Racial Disparities in Severe Maternal Morbidity Within Insurance Groups.","authors":"E Kathleen Adams, Sara Markowitz, Michael R Kramer, Peter J Joski, Anne L Dunlop","doi":"10.1002/hec.70002","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hec.70002","url":null,"abstract":"Rates of severe maternal morbidity (SMM) are related to maternal, hospital, and residential factors, but the contribution of these factors to racial disparities in SMM within Medicaid and private insured groups is largely unknown. Linked Georgia vital records/hospital discharge data for 2016-2020 are used to identify SMM during delivery or within 42 days postpartum for Medicaid and private insured. The Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition is used to describe the percentage of the Black-White SMM gap explained, based on linear probability models without and with hospital fixed-effects. While the rate of SMM is higher for Medicaid than private insured, the Black-White SMM gap is lower within Medicaid than private insured (1.15 vs. 1.40 per 100 deliveries). Including hospital fixed-effects increased the explained gap by 29.1 percentage points (from 13.8% to 42.9%) within Medicaid and by 9.4 percentage points (from 20.0% to 29.4%) within private insured. Residential factors significantly reduced the Black-White gap explained for Medicaid (-19.6%) but were insignificant (∼0%) for privately insured. According to the Oaxaca-Blinder algebraic calculation, differences in within-hospital processes by race contribute a large portion of the discriminatory Black-White SMM gap among Georgia deliveries while residential areas with greater provider access tends to reduce the gap among Medicaid insured.","PeriodicalId":12847,"journal":{"name":"Health economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144340043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Heterogenous Mental Health Impacts of a Forced Relocation: The Red Zone in Christchurch (New Zealand). 强迫搬迁对异质心理健康的影响：基督城红区（新西兰）。

IF 2 3区医学

Health economics Pub Date : 2025-06-21 DOI: 10.1002/hec.70004

Thoa Hoang, Ilan Noy, Thinh Le Van

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Do Rurality-Based Financial Incentives Improve Equity of Primary Healthcare Access? Evidence From Australia. 以农村为基础的财政激励措施能改善初级卫生保健获得的公平性吗？来自澳大利亚的证据。

IF 2 3区医学

Health economics Pub Date : 2025-06-18 DOI: 10.1002/hec.70000

Karinna Saxby, Yuting Zhang

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The Spillover Effects of a City-Wide Global Budget and Case-Based Payment Reform on Inbound Non-Resident Patients. 城市范围内的全球预算和案例支付改革对入境非居民患者的溢出效应。

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Health economics Pub Date : 2025-06-14 DOI: 10.1002/hec.4979

Yawen Jiang

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Does the Risk Premium Differ Between Women Engaging in Commercial and Transactional Sex? Evidence From Urban Cameroon 从事商业性和交易性行为的女性风险溢价不同吗？来自喀麦隆城市的证据。

IF 2 3区医学

Health economics Pub Date : 2025-06-13 DOI: 10.1002/hec.4964

Rebecca G. Njuguna, Henry Cust, The POWER Team, Aurélia Lépine

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Hungry no More? The Joint Impact of Minimum Wages and the Earned Income Tax Credit on Food Insecurity. 不再饿了吗？最低工资和劳动所得税抵免对粮食不安全的共同影响。

IF 2 3区医学

Health economics Pub Date : 2025-06-10 DOI: 10.1002/hec.70001

Otto Lenhart, Kalyan Chakraborty

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