{"title":"Does informal care delay nursing home entry? Evidence from Dutch linked survey and administrative data","authors":"Julien Bergeot , Marianne Tenand","doi":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102831","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102831","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We assess whether informal care receipt affects the probability of transitioning to a nursing home. Available evidence derives from the US, where nursing home stays are often temporary. Exploiting linked survey and administrative data from the Netherlands, we use the gender mix of children to retrieve exogenous variation in informal care receipt. We find that informal care increases the chance of an admission within a three-year period for individuals with severe functional limitations, and increases the costs incurred on formal home care. For individuals with mild limitations, informal care substantially decreases total care costs, whereas its effect on nursing home admission is unclear. Further, informal care results in lower post-acute care use and hospital care costs, and does not increase mortality. Promoting informal care cannot be expected to systematically result in lower institutionalization rate and care costs, but it may nonetheless induce health benefits for its recipients.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50186,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Economics","volume":"92 ","pages":"Article 102831"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016762962300108X/pdfft?md5=c7df85a62ec2bc3b237c22718e788523&pid=1-s2.0-S016762962300108X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71428602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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 long-term effects of early-life pollution exposure: Evidence from the London smog","authors":"Stephanie von Hinke , Emil N. Sørensen","doi":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102827","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102827","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper uses a large UK cohort to investigate the impact of early-life pollution exposure on individuals’ human capital and health outcomes in older age. We compare individuals who were exposed to the London smog in December 1952 whilst <em>in utero</em> or in infancy to those born after the smog and those born at the same time but in unaffected areas. We find that those exposed to the smog have substantially lower fluid intelligence and worse respiratory health, with some evidence of a reduction in years of schooling.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50186,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Economics","volume":"92 ","pages":"Article 102827"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49693506","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}
Philipp Barteska , Sonja Dobkowitz , Maarit Olkkola , Michael Rieser
{"title":"Mass vaccination and educational attainment: Evidence from the 1967–68 Measles Eradication Campaign","authors":"Philipp Barteska , Sonja Dobkowitz , Maarit Olkkola , Michael Rieser","doi":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102828","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We show that the first nationwide mass vaccination campaign against measles increased educational attainment in the United States. Our empirical strategy exploits variation in exposure to the childhood disease across states right before the Measles Eradication Campaign of 1967–68, which reduced reported measles incidence by 90 percent within two years. Our results suggest that mass vaccination against measles increased the years of education on average by about 0.1 years in the affected cohorts. We also find tentative evidence that the college graduation rate of men increased.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50186,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Economics","volume":"92 ","pages":"Article 102828"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167629623001054/pdfft?md5=cd5849e5547d5aeb208abaabbfef4791&pid=1-s2.0-S0167629623001054-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92099222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tax incidence for menthol cigarettes by race: Evidence from Nielsen Homescan data","authors":"Hyunchul Kim, Dongwon Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102829","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102829","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We use Nielsen Homescan data to examine whether the incidence of cigarette taxes on menthol products varies with race. We find that taxes are shifted at significantly lower rates to Black smokers of menthol cigarettes than any other smokers. One possible explanation is that the industry targets price promotions to Black menthol smokers because they tend to be more responsive to cigarette prices relative to other smokers. We find evidence that Black smokers receive significantly more price discounts for menthol products than white menthol smokers. Our findings indicate that increasing cigarette taxes would effectively reduce menthol smoking among Black Americans because tax pass-through rate for Black menthol smokers is still substantially above zero.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50186,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Economics","volume":"92 ","pages":"Article 102829"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49684399","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}
Andrew J. Hill , Daniel B. Jones , Lindsey Woodworth
{"title":"Physician-patient race-match reduces patient mortality","authors":"Andrew J. Hill , Daniel B. Jones , Lindsey Woodworth","doi":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102821","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102821","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper assesses the impacts of physician-patient race-match, especially Black patients paired with Black physicians, on patient mortality. We draw on administrative data from Florida, linking hospital encounters from mid-2011 through 2014 to information from the Florida Physician Workforce Survey. Focusing on uninsured patients experiencing unscheduled hospital admissions who are conditionally randomly assigned to physicians, we find that physician-patient race-match for Black patients reduces the likelihood of within-hospital mortality by 0.28 percentage points, a 27 % reduction relative to the overall mortality rate. An alternative identification strategy relying on instrumental variables provides a similar finding.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50186,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Economics","volume":"92 ","pages":"Article 102821"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49693505","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}
Eli Liebman , Emily C. Lawler , Abe Dunn , David B. Ridley
{"title":"Consequences of a shortage and rationing: Evidence from a pediatric vaccine","authors":"Eli Liebman , Emily C. Lawler , Abe Dunn , David B. Ridley","doi":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102819","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102819","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Shortages and rationing are common in health care<span>, yet we know little about the consequences. We examine an 18-month shortage of the pediatric<span> Haemophilus Influenzae Type B (Hib) vaccine. Using insurance claims data and variation in shortage exposure across birth cohorts, we find that the shortage reduced uptake of high-value primary doses by 4 percentage points and low-value booster doses by 26 percentage points. This suggests providers largely complied with rationing recommendations. In the long-run, catch-up vaccination occurred but was incomplete: shortage-exposed cohorts were 4 percentage points less likely to have received the ir booster dose years later. We also find that the shortage and rationing caused provider switches, extra provider visits, and negative </span></span></span>spillovers to other care.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50186,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Economics","volume":"92 ","pages":"Article 102819"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49684397","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}
{"title":"The impact of a long-term care information campaign on insurance coverage","authors":"Jessica H. Brown","doi":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102822","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102822","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>I estimate the impact of an information campaign on long-term care planning behaviors. I identify this effect using the staggered timing of the federal-state “Own Your Future” campaign, which urged individuals to plan ahead for long-term care needs and reached 26 states over five years. I find the campaign increased long-term care insurance coverage for individuals in the top quintile of the asset distribution by four percentage points, or seventeen percent. A back-of-the-envelope calculation indicates Medicaid savings of $483 million in present value.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50186,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Economics","volume":"92 ","pages":"Article 102822"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41180397","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}
{"title":"Living with particles: Disclosure of pollution information, individual responses, and health consequences","authors":"Xinjie Shi , Yu Shen , Ran Song","doi":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102824","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102824","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Drawing on a panel dataset—the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey (CHARLS)—and other city- and individual-level datasets, this study examines the causal impact of pollution information disclosure on individual outdoor activities and the health status of the middle-aged and elderly. Using city-level variations in disclosure timing, we found that the adoption of pollution information disclosure (PID) significantly reduces the probability of outdoor exercise, especially for those living in more polluted cities. This occurs mainly through enhanced awareness of environmental pollution, particularly for those who are more educated. However, the adoption of PID does not lead to an improvement in health status.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50186,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Economics","volume":"92 ","pages":"Article 102824"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41118410","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}
{"title":"Inequality in the golden years: Wealth gradients in disability-free and work-free longevity in the United States","authors":"Hessam Bavafa , Anita Mukherjee , Tyler Q. Welch","doi":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102820","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102820","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>We study the relationship of wealth with the “quality” of longevity as measured by years after age 65 containing disability or work. By comparing cohorts turning 65 in 1996 and 2006, we observe strong within-cohort gradients of wealth in which the more wealthy live more years disability-free and work more years, yet also experience more work-free years. We document that these gradients steepened over the decade we study. We explore robustness using education as an alternative indicator for socioeconomic status, and rule out certain explanations for these trends by analyzing the effect of health </span>shocks on wealth accumulation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50186,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Economics","volume":"92 ","pages":"Article 102820"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49684398","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}
Zachary S. Templeton , Nate C. Apathy , R. Tamara Konetzka , Meghan M. Skira , Rachel M. Werner
{"title":"The health effects of nursing home specialization in post-acute care","authors":"Zachary S. Templeton , Nate C. Apathy , R. Tamara Konetzka , Meghan M. Skira , Rachel M. Werner","doi":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102823","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102823","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Nursing homes serve both long-term care and post-acute care (PAC) patients, two groups with distinct financing mechanisms and requirements for care. We examine empirically the effect of nursing home specialization in PAC using 2011–2018 data for Medicare patients admitted to nursing homes following a hospital stay. To address patient selection into specialized nursing homes, we use an instrumental variables approach that exploits variation over time in the distance from the patient's residential ZIP code to the closest nursing home with different levels of PAC specialization. We find that patients admitted to nursing homes more specialized in PAC have lower hospital readmissions and mortality, longer nursing home stays, and higher Medicare spending for the episode of care, suggesting that specialization improves patient outcomes but at higher costs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50186,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health Economics","volume":"92 ","pages":"Article 102823"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41240475","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}