{"title":"Temporary and persistent overweight and long-term labor market outcomes.","authors":"Liisa T Laine, Ari Hyytinen","doi":"10.1007/s10754-021-09315-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10754-021-09315-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We study how the duration of being overweight earlier in life is related to subsequent long-term labor market outcomes. Our data on fraternal and identical twins born and raised in the same household contain weight measurements of the twins during their early adulthood measured in 1975, 1981, and 1990 and is linked to register-based administrative data on the earnings and employment from 1990 to 2009. When combined, these data enable an empirical strategy that controls for the family environment and genes shared by twins. We find that being persistently overweight during early adulthood is negatively associated with long-term earnings for both women and men. We find that for women, the association is driven by a decrease in labor market-attachment, whereas for men, the association is driven by lower annual earnings.</p>","PeriodicalId":44403,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Economics and Management","volume":"22 2","pages":"181-203"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39694404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"State minimum wages and health insurance coverage in the United States: 2008-2018.","authors":"Masanori Kuroki","doi":"10.1007/s10754-021-09313-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10754-021-09313-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examines the effect of minimum wage hikes on the shares of uninsured people during the period 2008-2018. Despite some concern that higher minimum wages would lead to higher uninsured rates by (1) reducing employment, (2) inducing employers to stop offering health insurance to their employees, and (3) making minimum wage workers ineligible for Medicaid by increasing their earnings, the findings indicate that the uninsured rate tends to decrease with higher minimum wages, suggesting that minimum wage hikes might encourage minimum-wage workers to obtain health insurance. The effects appear to come from minimum wage hikes that occurred after the Affordable Care Act (ACA) took effect in 2014, suggesting that higher minimum wages combined with federal subsidies for the ACA marketplace and the individual mandate might have contributed to a reduction in the uninsured rate. However, Medicaid expansions seem to mitigate the effect of the minimum wage on the uninsured rate among low-income households.</p>","PeriodicalId":44403,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Economics and Management","volume":"22 2","pages":"163-180"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8424407/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39412859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The weekend effect in stroke mortality: evidence from Austrian acute care hospitals.","authors":"Florian Bachner, Martin Zuba","doi":"10.1007/s10754-021-09317-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10754-021-09317-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Many studies provide evidence for the so-called weekend effect by demonstrating that patients admitted to hospital during weekends show less favourable outcomes such as increased mortality, compared with similar patients admitted during weekdays. The underlying causes for this phenomenon are still discussed controversially. We analysed factors influencing weekend effects in inpatient care for acute stroke in Austria. The study analysed secondary datasets from all 130 public acute care hospitals in Austria between 2010 and 2014 (Austrian DRG Data). The study cohort included 86,399 patient cases admitted with acute ischaemic stroke. By applying multivariate regression analysis, we tested whether patient, treatment or hospital characteristics drove in-hospital mortality on weekends and national holidays. We found that the risk to die after an admission at weekend was significantly higher compared to weekdays, while the number of admissions following stroke was significantly lower. Adjustment for patient, treatment and hospital characteristics substantially reduced the weekend effect in mortality but did not eliminate it. We conclude that the observed weekend effect could be explained either by lower quality of health care or higher severity of stroke admissions at the weekend. In depth analyses supported the hypothesis of higher stroke severity in weekend patients as seen in other studies. While DRG data is useful to analyse stroke treatment and outcomes, adjustment for case mix and severity is essential.</p>","PeriodicalId":44403,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Economics and Management","volume":"22 2","pages":"205-236"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39586955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Martin Chalkley, Budi Hidayat, Royasia Viki Ramadani, María José Aragón
{"title":"The sensitivity of hospital coding to prices: evidence from Indonesia.","authors":"Martin Chalkley, Budi Hidayat, Royasia Viki Ramadani, María José Aragón","doi":"10.1007/s10754-021-09312-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10754-021-09312-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examines a newly introduced DRG system in Indonesia. We use secondary data for 2015 and 2017 from Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional (JKN), a patient level dataset for Indonesia created in 2014 to record public and private hospitals' claims to the national health insurance system to investigate whether there is an association between changes in tariffs paid and the severity of inpatient activity recorded in hospitals. We find a consistent small, positive and statistically significant correlation between changes in tariffs and changes in concentration of activity, indicating discretionary but limited coding behaviour by hospitals. The results indicate that reducing price differentials may mitigate discretionary coding, but that the benefits of this are limited and need to be compared to the potential risk of having to rebase all prices upwards.</p>","PeriodicalId":44403,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Economics and Management","volume":"22 2","pages":"147-162"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9090886/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39393927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eliciting relative preferences for the attributes of health insurance schemes among rural consumers in India","authors":"Mohd. Zuhair, R. Roy","doi":"10.1007/s10754-022-09327-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10754-022-09327-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44403,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Economics and Management","volume":"38 1","pages":"443 - 458"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75490212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does supplemental private health insurance incentivize household risky financial asset investment? Evidence from the China Household Financial Survey","authors":"Si Shi, Yawen Jiang","doi":"10.1007/s10754-022-09326-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10754-022-09326-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44403,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Economics and Management","volume":"42 1","pages":"369 - 421"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76385887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The heterogeneous effects of the great recession on informal care to the elderly","authors":"Jesus M. Carro, Elizaveta Pronkina","doi":"10.1007/s10754-022-09325-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10754-022-09325-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44403,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Economics and Management","volume":"96 1","pages":"355 - 367"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80205761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impact of the repeal of the federal individual insurance mandate on uninsurance","authors":"Aparna Soni","doi":"10.1007/s10754-022-09324-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10754-022-09324-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44403,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Economics and Management","volume":"79 1","pages":"423 - 441"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84074865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Willingness to give amid pandemics: a contingent valuation of anticipated nongovernmental immunization programs.","authors":"William F Vásquez, Jennifer M Trudeau","doi":"10.1007/s10754-021-09309-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10754-021-09309-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Given that altruism is crucial in assisting impoverished households to cope with health and economic crises, it is important to improve our understanding of how preferences and motives for giving differ during a pandemic. We implemented a web-based, contingent valuation survey to estimate Americans' willingness to give for nongovernmental immunization programs in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our results indicate that the median person is willing to give a one-time donation of $26, or at least $13 when willingness-to-give estimates are corrected for uncertainty regarding future donations. We find that willingness to give is related to income, concern levels, vaccine usage, and sociodemographic characteristics. Our findings also shed light on purely and impurely altruistic motives underlying the willingness to fund immunization programs.</p>","PeriodicalId":44403,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Economics and Management","volume":"22 1","pages":"53-68"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8193599/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39085035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Raúl Del Pozo-Rubio, Fernando Bermejo-Patón, Pablo Moya-Martínez
{"title":"Impact of implementation of the Dependency Act on the Spanish economy: an analysis after the 2008 financial crisis.","authors":"Raúl Del Pozo-Rubio, Fernando Bermejo-Patón, Pablo Moya-Martínez","doi":"10.1007/s10754-021-09310-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10754-021-09310-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aim of this paper is to assess the industry-wide impact of Long-Term Care (LTC) spending on the Spanish economy. LTC spending includes beneficiaries' copayment and the impact is quantified in terms of output, employment and value added. To this purpose, we use an input-output model of the Spanish economy that allows us to further describe how the value added generated is distributed throughout the economy according to the existing benefit-mix (in kind services, cash benefit for informal care and cash benefit for personal assistance). Additionally, the model provides results on how the return on LTC spending would improve by using only in-kind services instead of the benefit mix currently in place. The 2012 Spanish Input-Output Table at current prices was extracted from the WIOD Database's 2016 Release. Consumption data for dependent, employed, and unemployed households were collected from the Spanish Household Budget Survey for 2012. The findings reveal that the total annual costs are 7,205.43 million €, with total costs from in-kind services being almost 71% higher than total costs from cash benefits. Each million euros invested in in-kind services and CBPA would create 41.91 jobs (68.41% direct, 9.16% indirect and 22.43% induced). However, each million euros spent on cash benefits would result in 16.88 jobs overall (53.02% direct, 24.53% indirect and 22.45% induced). The total number of jobs is 151,353 at the aggregate level, being 46,840 depending on cash-benefits and 104,513 on in-kind services.</p>","PeriodicalId":44403,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Health Economics and Management","volume":"22 1","pages":"111-128"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8336904/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39277799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}