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Mind the Gap! Consumer Perceptions and Choices of Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plans

Winter, Joachim; Heiss, Florian; McFadden, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Medicare Part D provides prescription drug coverage through Medicare approved plans offered by private insurance companies and HMOs. In this paper, we study the role of current prescription drug use and health risks, related expectations, and subjective factors in the demand for prescription...

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Health and Health Behaviors during the Worst of Times: Evidence from the Great Recession

Tekin, Erdal; McClellan, Chandler; Minyard, Karen Jean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus of these studies has been on the relatively milder recessions of the late 20th century. In this paper, we examine if the previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health...

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Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century

Barreca, Alan Irwin; Clay, Karen B.; Deschenes, Olivier; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Adaptation is the only strategy that is guaranteed to be part of the world's climate strategy. Using the most comprehensive set of data files ever compiled on mortality and its determinants over the course of the 20th century, this paper makes two primary discoveries. First, we find that the...

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Moral Hazard and Less Invasive Medical Treatment for Coronary Artery Disease: The Case of Cigarette Smoking

Grossman, Michael; Margolis, Jesse; Hockenberry, Jason; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Over the last several decades, numerous medical studies have compared the effectiveness of two common procedures for Coronary Artery Disease: Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG). Most evidence indicates that CABG - the more invasive procedure - leads...

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The Contribution of Behavior Change and Public Health to Improved U.S. Population Health

Cutler, David M.; Stewart, Susan T. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Adverse behavioral risk factors contribute to a large share of deaths. We examine the effects on life expectancy (LE …) and quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE) of changes in six major behavioral risk factors over the 1960-2010 period … health improvements, which we estimate at 1.82 years of quality-adjusted life. However, these were roughly offset by …

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The Impact of Mothers' Earnings on Health Inputs and Infant Health

Mocan, Naci H.; Raschke, Christian; Unel, Bulent - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper investigates the impact of mothers' earnings on birth weight and gestational age of infants. It also analyzes the impact of earnings on mothers' consumption of prenatal medical care, and their propensity to smoke and drink during pregnancy. The paper uses census-division- and...

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One Step at a Time: The Effects of an Early Literacy Text Messaging Program for Parents of Preschoolers

York, Benjamin N.; Loeb, Susanna - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Substantial systematic differences exist in children’s home learning experiences. The few existing parenting programs that have shown promise often are not widely accessible, either due to the demands they place on parents’ time and effort or cost. In this study, we evaluate the effects of...

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Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and Its Influence on Childhood Obesity

Kelly, Inas Rashad; Grossman, Michael; Chou, Shin-Yi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

Childhood obesity around the world, and particularly in the United States, is an escalating problem that is especially detrimental as its effects carry on into adulthood. In this paper we employ the 1979 Child-Young Adult National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and the 1997 National Longitudinal...

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The Future of Drug Development: The Economics of Pharmacogenomics

Vernon, John A.; Hughen, W. Keener - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

This paper models how the evolving field of pharmacogenomics (PG), which is the science of using genomic markers to predict drug response, may impact drug development times, attrition rates, costs, and the future returns to research and development (R&D). While there still remains an abundance...

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Estimating Heterogeneity in the Benefits of Medical Treatment Intensity

evans, william n.; Garthwaite, Craig L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Federal and state laws passed in the late 1990 increased considerably postpartum stays for newborns. Using all births in California over the 1995-2001 period, 2SLS estimates suggest that for the average newborn impacted by the law, increased treatment intensity had modest and statistically...

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