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The Effects of Medicare Payment Changes on Nursing Home Staffing 医疗保险支付变化对养老院人员配置的影响
IF 3.7 2区 经济学
American Journal of Health Economics Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1086/710563
Daifeng He, Peter McHenry, J. Mellor
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引用次数: 3
Exploiting Incomplete Information in Risk Adjustment Using Constrained Regression 利用约束回归挖掘风险调整中的不完全信息
IF 3.7 2区 经济学
American Journal of Health Economics Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1086/710526
R. V. van Kleef, F. Eijkenaar, R. van Vliet, M. Nielen
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引用次数: 4
The Extent of Externalities from Medicare Payment Policy 医疗保险支付政策的外部性程度
IF 3.7 2区 经济学
American Journal of Health Economics Pub Date : 2020-08-05 DOI: 10.1086/718769
Alice Chen, Michael R Richards, C. Whaley, Xiaoxi Zhao
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引用次数: 3
An Apple a Day? Adult Food Stamp Eligibility and Health Care Utilization Among Immigrants 一天一个苹果?移民的成人食品券资格和医疗保健利用
IF 3.7 2区 经济学
American Journal of Health Economics Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI: 10.1086/709368
Chloe N. East, Andrew I. Friedson
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引用次数: 0
The Good Outcome of Bad News 坏消息带来的好结果
IF 3.7 2区 经济学
American Journal of Health Economics Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI: 10.1086/708930
Marco Bertoni, L. Corazzini, S. Robone
{"title":"The Good Outcome of Bad News","authors":"Marco Bertoni, L. Corazzini, S. Robone","doi":"10.1086/708930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/708930","url":null,"abstract":"By favoring early diagnosis, mammography screening decreases breast cancer mortality and treatment costs. However, participation in public screening programs is low in many countries. We ran a randomized field experiment to assess whether costless manipulations of the informational content (restricted or enhanced information) and the framing (gain or loss framing) of the invitation letter to the breast cancer screening program in Messina (Italy) affects participation. We show that giving enhanced loss-framed information about the risks of not having a mammography increases the take-up. This manipulation is most effective among subgroups with lower baseline take-ups, thereby reducing inequalities in screening. Finally, subjects exposed to this manipulation are much less likely to postpone the screening conditional on participation, revealing enhanced awareness about the risks related with delayed participation.","PeriodicalId":45056,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Health Economics","volume":"6 1","pages":"372 - 409"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/708930","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47069628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 7
Macroeconomic Shocks, Job Security, and Health 宏观经济冲击、就业保障和健康
IF 3.7 2区 经济学
American Journal of Health Economics Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI: 10.1086/708929
D. Johnston, M. Shields, Agne Suziedelyte
{"title":"Macroeconomic Shocks, Job Security, and Health","authors":"D. Johnston, M. Shields, Agne Suziedelyte","doi":"10.1086/708929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/708929","url":null,"abstract":"How do exogenous changes in the macroeconomic environment affect workers’ perceived job security, and consequently, their mental and physical health? To answer this question, we exploit variation in world commodity prices over the period 2001–17 and analyze panel data that include detailed classifications of mining workers. We find that commodity price increases cause increases in perceived job security, which in turn, significantly and substantively improves the mental health of workers. In contrast, we find no effects on physical health. Our results imply that the estimated welfare costs of recessions are much larger when the effects of job insecurity, and not only unemployment, are considered.","PeriodicalId":45056,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Health Economics","volume":"116 ","pages":"348 - 371"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/708929","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41283718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 7
Are We #Stayinghome to Flatten the Curve? 我们呆在家里是为了让曲线变平吗?
IF 3.7 2区 经济学
American Journal of Health Economics Pub Date : 2020-05-25 DOI: 10.1086/721705
James Sears, J. M. Villas-Boas, Vasco Villas-Boas, S. Villas-Boas
{"title":"Are We #Stayinghome to Flatten the Curve?","authors":"James Sears, J. M. Villas-Boas, Vasco Villas-Boas, S. Villas-Boas","doi":"10.1086/721705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721705","url":null,"abstract":"The recent spread of COVID-19 across the United States led to concerted efforts by states to “flatten the curve” through the adoption of stay-at-home mandates that encouraged individuals to reduce travel and maintain social distance. Combining data on changes in travel activity and human encounter rates with state policy adoption timing, we first characterize the overall changes in mobility patterns that accompanied the spread of COVID-19. We find evidence of dramatic nationwide declines in mobility and human encounters prior to adoption of any statewide mandates. Then, using difference-in-differences along with weighted and unweighted event study methods, we isolate the portion of those reductions directly attributable to statewide mandates. Once states adopt a mandate, we estimate further mandate-induced declines of between 2.1 and 7.0 percentage points relative to pre-COVID-19 baseline levels. While residents of mandate states soon returned to prior business visitation patterns, the impacts on distances traveled and human encounter rates persisted throughout the observed mandate periods. Our estimates of early mobility reductions and the responses to statewide stay-at-home policies convey important policy implications for the persistence of mobility behavior changes and states’ future reopenings.","PeriodicalId":45056,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Health Economics","volume":"9 1","pages":"71 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2020-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46623533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 41
Healthy Babies 健康的婴儿
IF 3.7 2区 经济学
American Journal of Health Economics Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/707831
Ji Yan
{"title":"Healthy Babies","authors":"Ji Yan","doi":"10.1086/707831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/707831","url":null,"abstract":"The recent economic literature on child development has underscored the importance of giving babies a healthy start. Despite the widespread use of prenatal care, whether this early investment improves infant health is not well understood. This study provides new causal evidence on this crucial issue using 1.4 million sibling births. The baseline within-family analysis shows a modest effect of prenatal care on the mean birth weight but large effects on adverse outcomes at the lower end of the birth weight distribution, where two channels are preventing low maternal weight gain and promoting prenatal smoking cessation. Similar results hold when we examine different subperiods or subgroups, consider multiple dimensions of care utilization, or use additional birth-varying controls. Overall, this study shows that adequate prenatal care has a significant payoff in terms of newborn health stock. From a policy perspective, it is important to improve prenatal care access for childbearing women.","PeriodicalId":45056,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Health Economics","volume":"6 1","pages":"199 - 215"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/707831","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48270749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 5
The Effects of State Scope of Practice Laws on the Labor Supply of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses 国家执业范围法对高级执业注册护士劳动力供给的影响
IF 3.7 2区 经济学
American Journal of Health Economics Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/716545
Sara Markowitz, Kathleen Adams
{"title":"The Effects of State Scope of Practice Laws on the Labor Supply of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses","authors":"Sara Markowitz, Kathleen Adams","doi":"10.1086/716545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/716545","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies the effects of changes in states’ scope of practice (SOP) laws for advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) on individual labor supply decisions. Restrictive SOP impose costs and other barriers to practice that may affect these decisions. Using survey data on APRNs, we analyze employment in nursing, work hours, part-time work status, multiple job holding, self-employment, wages, and migration. Results show that the level of SOP restrictions are not strong determinants of many labor market decisions but APRNs working in states without oversight requirements are much more likely to be self-employed and to work more hours. APRNs are also found to commute to less restrictive SOP environments when geographically feasible. Increases in the labor supply of nurses when regulatory environments are relatively free from physician oversight requirements can bring an important change to the delivery of health care in the United States.","PeriodicalId":45056,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Health Economics","volume":"8 1","pages":"65 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43672206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 13
Giving Teens a Boost? 鼓励青少年?
IF 3.7 2区 经济学
American Journal of Health Economics Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/707834
Emily C. Lawler
{"title":"Giving Teens a Boost?","authors":"Emily C. Lawler","doi":"10.1086/707834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/707834","url":null,"abstract":"This study provides the first quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of nonbinding vaccine recommendations targeted at high school–aged adolescents. Using data from the National Immunization Survey–Teen and the Centers for Disease Control’s disease surveillance system, I find that these simple recommendations significantly increased meningococcal vaccination rates among the targeted population by 21 percentage points, or 133 percent relative to the baseline mean, and substantially reduced meningococcal disease incidence in the population. I also provide evidence that the recommendations primarily affected vaccination rates through changes in provider behavior, and show that they exacerbated preexisting disparities in receipt of preventive care. In particular, groups with lower socioeconomic status, which had lower rates of vaccination and provider contact prior to the recommendation, were also less responsive to the policy.","PeriodicalId":45056,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Health Economics","volume":"6 1","pages":"251 - 287"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/707834","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43819720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 6
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