Health economicsPub Date : 2026-03-31Epub Date: 2026-01-31DOI: 10.1002/hec.70081
Hang Thu Nguyen-Phung, Yijun Yu, Phuc H. Nguyen, Hai Le
{"title":"Maternal Education and Child Development: Insights From Nutritional Status in Kenya","authors":"Hang Thu Nguyen-Phung, Yijun Yu, Phuc H. Nguyen, Hai Le","doi":"10.1002/hec.70081","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hec.70081","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper examines the impacts of maternal education on her children's nutritional status in Kenya, utilizing six waves of nationally representative data from KDHS. To mitigate potential endogeneity issues and derive a causal relationship, we employ a change in the educational regime in 1985 as an instrument variable. The key findings can be summarized as follows. First, women under the new structure enhance their education by an average of 1.8 years. Second, an additional year of education attained by a mother is shown to have an impact on reducing the likelihood of her child experiencing stunting, underweight, and wasting by approximately 3.8, 2.6, and 1.2 percentage points, respectively. These findings withstand rigorous testing through a battery of robustness checks. Finally, to elucidate the underlying mechanisms behind these results, our study delves into various factors, encompassing women's fertility, female labor force engagement, women's information exposure, and their involvement in decision-making.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":12847,"journal":{"name":"Health economics","volume":"35 5","pages":"778-795"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146092991","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}
Health economicsPub Date : 2026-03-31Epub Date: 2026-01-11DOI: 10.1002/hec.70079
Caroline Fry, Ina Ganguli
{"title":"Return on Returns: Building Scientific Capacity in AIDS Endemic Countries","authors":"Caroline Fry, Ina Ganguli","doi":"10.1002/hec.70079","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hec.70079","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>We examine public funding for health research through the United States National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Center's AIDS International Training and Research Program, which sought to strengthen scientific capacity in AIDS-endemic countries by providing African researchers with training opportunities in the U.S. We use a difference-in-differences framework with information on scientists who participated in the program and the research activities of African scientists working at their home institutions in adjacent topics of neglected tropical diseases. Relative to comparable scientists, those at institutions with returning trainees subsequently publish more on HIV-related topics, receive more grant funding, engage in more clinical trials, and their work contributes to a greater number of policy documents. These patterns suggest that following the Fogarty program, research, innovation, and health policy related to the AIDS epidemic in African countries became more active.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":12847,"journal":{"name":"Health economics","volume":"35 5","pages":"730-741"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145951158","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}
Health economicsPub Date : 2026-03-31Epub Date: 2026-01-19DOI: 10.1002/hec.70080
Ricardo B. Ang III
{"title":"Medicare Part D and Hospital Admissions due to Antimicrobial Resistance","authors":"Ricardo B. Ang III","doi":"10.1002/hec.70080","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hec.70080","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been increasing rapidly in the United States despite government efforts to contain its spread. Both under-utilization and overuse of prescribed antimicrobials contribute to rising resistance. The introduction of Medicare Part D in 2006 expanded prescription drug coverage for the elderly, including coverage for antimicrobial medications. If cost barriers had previously led to under-utilization of prescriptions, then Medicare Part D could have mitigated AMR by improving access to antimicrobials. However, if Medicare Part D also encouraged excessive antibiotic use, it may have inadvertently contributed to greater resistance. Using data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for January 2001 to September 2008, I estimate the causal impact of Medicare Part D on AMR-related hospital discharges using a difference-in-differences identification strategy. My findings suggest that Medicare Part D led to a slower increase in AMR-related inpatient discharges among the Medicare-eligible population.</p>","PeriodicalId":12847,"journal":{"name":"Health economics","volume":"35 5","pages":"759-777"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13039772/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146003323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health economicsPub Date : 2026-03-31Epub Date: 2026-01-01DOI: 10.1002/hec.70076
Flaviana Palmisano
{"title":"Exploring Population Heterogeneities in Health Dynamics","authors":"Flaviana Palmisano","doi":"10.1002/hec.70076","DOIUrl":"10.1002/hec.70076","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>How does individuals' health status evolve over time? Is this evolution characterized by any socio-economic gradient? To answer these questions, this paper proposes a new intuitive and normatively grounded criterion to assess and compare health dynamics over time accounting for population heterogeneities. Implementing this criterion to European data, this paper provides the first pan-European evidence on health dynamics and related heterogeneities from 2005 to 2019. It shows that socio-economic gradients have played an important role in shaping the health dynamics experienced by the European population. These dynamics appear progressive with respect to the pure economic status of individuals determined by their level of income. This feature is reverted when the economic conditions of individuals are widened to include non-pure monetary aspects such as professional condition and parental background.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":12847,"journal":{"name":"Health economics","volume":"35 5","pages":"691-711"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145889156","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}