Mother's mental health after childbirth: does the delivery method matter?
Publication date: Available online 7 December 2018Source: Journal of Health EconomicsAuthor(s): Valentina ToneiAbstractThe dramatic increase in the utilization of caesarean section has raised concerns on its impact on public expenditure and health. While the financial costs associated with this surgical procedure are well recognized, less is known on the intangible health costs borne by mothers and their families. We contribute to the debate by investigating the effect of unplanned caesarean deliveries on mothers’ mental health in the first nine months after the delivery. Differently from previous studies, we account for...
Source: Journal of Health Economics - December 7, 2018 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Demand for Health Insurance: Evidence from the California and Washington ACA Exchanges
Publication date: Available online 5 December 2018Source: Journal of Health EconomicsAuthor(s): Evan SaltzmanAbstractI estimate demand for health insurance using consumer-level data from the California and Washington ACA exchanges. I use the demand estimates to simulate the impact of policies targeting adverse selection, including subsidies and the individual mandate. I find (1) own-premium elasticities of −7.2 to −10.6 and insurance coverage elasticities of −1.1 to −1.2; (2) limited response to the mandate penalty amount, but significant response to the penalty's existence, suggesting consumers have a “taste for...
Source: Journal of Health Economics - December 5, 2018 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Effects of Early Childhood Intervention on Fertility and Maternal Employment: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Publication date: Available online 1 December 2018Source: Journal of Health EconomicsAuthor(s): Malte SandnerAbstractThis paper presents the results of a randomized study of a home visiting program implemented in Germany for low-income, first-time mothers. Besides improving child health and development, a major goal of the program is to improve the participants’ economic self-sufficiency and family planning. I use administrative data from the German social security system and detailed telephone surveys to examine the effects of the intervention on maternal employment, welfare benefits, household composition, and fertilit...
Source: Journal of Health Economics - December 2, 2018 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
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Source: Journal of Health Economics - November 29, 2018 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
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Source: Journal of Health Economics - November 29, 2018 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
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Publication date: November 2018Source: Journal of Health Economics, Volume 62Author(s): (Source: Journal of Health Economics)
Source: Journal of Health Economics - November 29, 2018 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
The unintended effects of place based programs: Fertility and health effects of urban empowerment zones
Publication date: Available online 29 November 2018Source: Journal of Health EconomicsAuthor(s): Daniel GrossmanAbstractWhether place-based welfare programs affect fertility and health outcomes is an understudied question. I estimate the health impacts of the Empowerment Zone (EZ) program—a federal program that gave sizeable grants and tax breaks to certain high-poverty census tracts in selected cities. Using difference-in-differences methods, I find that the EZ program decreased fertility rates by 11 percent and improved birth outcomes. Compositional changes in fertility likely cannot explain changes in infant health. R...
Source: Journal of Health Economics - November 29, 2018 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Do Dutch dentists extract monopoly rents?
Publication date: Available online 17 November 2018Source: Journal of Health EconomicsAuthor(s): Nadine Ketel, Edwin Leuven, Hessel Oosterbeek, Bas van der KlaauwAbstractWe exploit lottery-determined admission to dental school to estimate the payoffs to the study of dentistry in the Netherlands. Using data from up to 22 years after the lottery, we find that in most years after graduation dentists earn around 50,000 Euros more than they would earn in their next-best profession. The payoff is larger for men than for women but does not vary with high school GPA. The large payoffs cannot be attributed to longer working hours, ...
Source: Journal of Health Economics - November 17, 2018 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Estimating Returns to Hospital Volume: Evidence from Advanced Cancer Surgery
Publication date: Available online 15 November 2018Source: Journal of Health EconomicsAuthor(s): Daniel Avdic, Petter Lundborg, Johan VikströmAbstractHigh-volume hospitals typically perform better than low-volume hospitals. In this paper, we study whether such patterns reflect a causal effect of case volume on patient outcomes. To this end, we exploit closures and openings of entire cancer clinics in Swedish hospitals which provides sharp and arguably exogenous variation in case volumes. Using detailed register data on more than 100,000 treatment episodes of advanced cancer surgery, our results suggest substantial positiv...
Source: Journal of Health Economics - November 16, 2018 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
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Publication date: Available online 8 November 2018Source: Journal of Health EconomicsAuthor(s): (Source: Journal of Health Economics)
Source: Journal of Health Economics - November 9, 2018 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
The Effect of Health Insurance on Prescription Drug Use Among Low-Income Adults:Evidence from Recent Medicaid Expansions
This study examines how subsidized coverage affects prescription drug utilization among low-income non-elderly adults. Using the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansions as a source of variation and a national, all-payer pharmacy transactions database, we find that within the first 15 months of new health insurance availability, aggregate Medicaid-paid prescriptions increased 19 percent, amounting to nearly 9 new prescriptions a year, per new enrollee. We find no evidence of reductions in uninsured or privately-insured prescriptions, suggesting that new coverage did not simply substitute for other payment sources. The l...
Source: Journal of Health Economics - November 7, 2018 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Are Some Neighborhoods Bad For Your Waistline? A Test of Neighborhood Exposure Effects on BMI
Publication date: Available online 5 November 2018Source: Journal of Health EconomicsAuthor(s): Susan OuAbstractI study the causal impact of neighborhoods on body mass index (BMI). Through exploiting variation in the number of years individuals have lived in their neighborhood, using a data set from California, I examine if there exist causal effects of exposure to neighborhoods with high potential effects on one's BMI. The identifying assumption is that there are no unobserved individual level characteristics correlated with both BMI and moving, after controlling for observables. I find evidence that suggests that neighbo...
Source: Journal of Health Economics - November 6, 2018 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Unemployment Insurance and Cigarette Smoking
Publication date: Available online 3 November 2018Source: Journal of Health EconomicsAuthor(s): Wei Fu, Feng LiuAbstractWe provide evidence for the causal relationship between unemployment insurance (UI) and individuals’ smoking behavior using the 1995–2011 Current Population Survey-Tobacco Use Supplement data. Our identification relies on the exploitation of the exogenous variations of the maximum UI weekly benefits across states and over years. Instead of focusing on all unemployed people, we concentrate on those who are eligible for UI benefits. We find that when the maximum UI weekly benefit level increases by $100...
Source: Journal of Health Economics - November 4, 2018 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Heterogeneity in Long Term Health Outcomes of Migrants within Italy
This article examines the long term physical and mental health effects of internal migration focusing on a relatively unique migration experience concentrated over a short period between 1950 and 1970 from the South to the North of Italy. We find a positive and statistically significant association between migration, its timing and physical health for migrant females, which we show are likely to represent rural females in both the early and the late cohort. We find less defined evidence of migration-health association for mental health. We link our findings to the economic transition and labor market transformation that It...
Source: Journal of Health Economics - November 3, 2018 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Can a Conditional Cash Transfer Reduce Teen Fertility? The Case of Brazil’s Bolsa Familia
Publication date: Available online 2 November 2018Source: Journal of Health EconomicsAuthor(s): Zachary Olson, Rachel Gardner Clark, Sarah Anne ReynoldsAbstractIn 2008, Brazil's conditional cash transfer program expanded to cover a wider range of ages. Poor families are now given stipends for their children's school attendance up to age seventeen, whereas prior the maximum age was fifteen. Using a nationally representative household survey, we estimate the impact of this policy on teen fertility with a triple difference analysis on the fertility outcomes of treated cohorts vs. non-treated cohorts based on income eligibilit...
Source: Journal of Health Economics - November 3, 2018 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
