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Program Report: Health Economics, 2022 NBER

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Economics of Health NBER

WEBAmy Finkelstein is the John and Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the co-founder and Co-Scientific Director of …

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Health as an Investment NBER

WEBIn addition to working papers, the NBER disseminates affiliates’ latest findings through a range of free periodicals — the NBER Reporter, the NBER Digest, the Bulletin on …

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Economic Analysis for Evidence-Based Health Policy: …

WEBThe NBER Health Economics Program has historically studied the determinants and consequences of differences in health outcomes, with a focus on …

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Front matter, THE DEMAND FOR HEALTH: A …

WEBFront matter, THE DEMAND FOR HEALTH: A THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION. This PDF is a selection from an out-of-print volume from the National …

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Health Care Spending Growth Has Slowed: Will the Bend …

WEBOver 2009-2019 the seemingly inexorable rise in health care’s share of GDP markedly slowed, both in the US and elsewhere. To address whether this slowdown represents a …

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The Demand for Health Insurance Among Uninsured …

WEBYet any attempt to achieve universal coverage must focus on the uninsured, the vast majority of whom are not offered employer-sponsored insurance. In the summer of 2008, …

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Human Capital Spillovers and Health: Does Living Around …

WEBEvery 10 percent point increase in an area’s share of adults with a college degree is associated with a decline in all-cause mortality by 7%, controlling for individual …

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Conferences and Meetings, Spring 2024 NBER

WEBA free quarterly publication featuring program updates, several summaries of affiliates' research, and news about the NBER.

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HEALTH AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

WEB1 . Health and Economic Growth: Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence . David E. Bloom 𝑎𝑎, David Canning 𝑎𝑎, Rainer Kotschy 𝑎𝑎, Klaus Prettner. 𝑏𝑏,𝑐𝑐, Johannes Schünemann 𝑑𝑑 …

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Program Report: International Finance and Macroeconomics

WEBAffiliates of the International Finance and Macroeconomics (IFM) Program study financial interactions among nations, including cross-border capital flows, …

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How Health Declines with Age NBER

WEBSummary of working paper 9821. It is a fact of life that health declines with age. When people are asked to rank their health status on a 5-point scale (where 1 is excellent and …

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HUMAN CAPITAL SPILLOVERS AND HEALTH

WEBArea human capital is also statistically significantly associated with a lower probability of being overweight or obese –. 10 percentage point increase in the percentage of college …

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Monopsony Power in Labor Markets NBER

WEBMonopsony, Round-Number Wages, and Mispricing. Intriguingly, the presence of monopsony power can help explain unusual patterns observed in the labor …

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Market Segmentation and Competition in Health Insurance

WEBIn the United States, households obtain health insurance through payers in distinct market seg-ments. In 2017, for example, 56% of the population obtained coverage through an …

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Firms and Worker Health NBER

WEBDOI 10.3386/w32011. Issue Date December 2023. We estimate the role of firms in worker health care utilization. Using linked administrative data on Austrian workers from 1998 …

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How Nurses Affect Health Care Delivery and Patient Health

WEBNurses play key roles in the delivery of health care services in hospitals, primary care settings, and long-term care facilities. Yet because nurses are only one …

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The Impact of Health Insurance on Preventive Care and Health …

WEBThe impact of health insurance on health behaviors is ambiguous. Any increase in contact with health care providers resulting from health insurance could reduce risky health …

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The Effects of Education on Health NBER

WEB03/01/2007. Summary of working paper 12352. An additional four years of education lowers five-year mortality by 1.8 percentage points; it also reduces the risk of heart disease by …

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Tuskegee, Trust in Doctors, and the Health of Black Men

WEBIn Tuskegee and the Health of Black Men (NBER Working Paper 22323 ), Marcella Alsan and Marianne Wanamaker find evidence that the suffering associated with this …

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Return Migration and Human Capital Flows NBER

WEBReturn Migration and Human Capital Flows. We bring to bear a novel dataset covering the employment history of about 450 million individuals from 180 countries to …

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Long-term Care Around the World NBER

WEBLong-term Care Around the World. Jonathan Gruber, Kathleen M. McGarry & Charles Hanzel. Working Paper 31882. DOI 10.3386/w31882. Issue Date November 2023. The …

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Adverse Selection in Health Insurance NBER

WEBIndividual choice over health insurance policies may result in risk-based sorting across plans. Such adverse selection induces three types of losses: efficiency losses from …

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Safety Net Program Interactions and Impacts on Low-Income …

WEBThe US safety net is a patchwork of interacting programs providing cash and in-kind transfers to low-income individuals and families. Our research investigates how these …

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Comparing Hospital Quality at For-Profit and Not- for-Profit …

WEBComparing Quality at For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Hospitals 97 for a cardiac complication). We focus on these two outcomes, and AM1 patients in particular, for a number of …

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Market Timing, Investment, and Risk Management

WEBMarket Timing, Investment, and Risk Management Patrick Bolton, Hui Chen, and Neng Wang NBER Working Paper No. 16808 February 2011 JEL No. E22,G01,G12,G3 …

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The Mortality Effects of Retirement NBER

WEBThe health effects of retirement may extend to mortality, perhaps the ultimate measure of health. Studying the health effects of retirement is complicated by the fact that people …

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NBER Center for Aging and Health Pilot Projects, Spring 2024

WEBORGANIZERS Anne Case, David M. Cutler, Jonathan S. Skinner, Richard Woodbury, Matthew C. Goodridge, and Alterra Milone

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Financial Dependence and Innovation: The Case of Public …

WEBThe findings suggest that public listing is beneficial to the innovation of firms in industries with a greater need for external capital. Viral V. Acharya Stern School of Business New …

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