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Non-Covid Excess Deaths, 2020-21 : Collateral Damage of Policy Choices?

Mulligan, Casey B.; Arnott, Rob - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

. Mortality from all causes during the pandemic was elevated 26 percent for working-age adults (18-64), as compared to 18 percent …

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Cost-Sharing in Medical Care Can Increase Adult Mortality : Evidence from Colombia

Buitrago, Giancarlo; Amaya-Nieto, Javier; Miller, Grant; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

outpatient cost-sharing measurably increases mortality, raising 8-year mortality by 4 deaths per 10,000 individuals. To the best … of our knowledge, this study is the first to show a relationship between cost-sharing and adult mortality risk in a low …

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The Prices in the Crises : What We Are Learning from Twenty Years of Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Das, Jishnu; Đỗ-Quý-Toàn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Governments in many low- and middle-income countries are developing health insurance products as a complement to tax-funded, subsidized provision of health care through publicly operated facilities. This paper discusses two rationales for this transition. First, health insurance would boost...

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Fatal Attraction? Extended Unemployment Benefits, Labor Force Exits, and Mortality

Kuhn, Andreas - 2018

We estimate the causal effect of permanent and premature exits from the labor force on mortality. To overcome the …-eligible regions. Using administrative data with precise information on mortality and retirement, we find that the policy change …

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Instrumental Variables with Time-Varying Exposure : New Estimates of Revascularization Effects on Quality of Life

Angrist, Joshua D.; Ferman, Bruno; Gao, Carol; Hull, Peter - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The ISCHEMIA Trial randomly assigned patients with ischemic heart disease to an invasive treatment strategy centered on revascularization with a control group assigned non-invasive medical therapy. As is common in such "strategy trials," many participants assigned to treatment remained untreated...

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IV Methods Reconcile Intention-to-Screen Effects Across Pragmatic Cancer Screening Trials

Angrist, Joshua D.; Hull, Peter - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Pragmatic cancer screening trials mimic real-world scenarios in which patients and doctors are the ultimate arbiters of treatment. Intention-to-screen (ITS) analyses of such trials maintain randomization-based apples-to-apples comparisons, but differential adherence (the failure of subjects...

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The Role of Friends in the Opioid Epidemic

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The role of friends in the US opioid epidemic is examined. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health), adults aged 25-34 and their high school best friends are focused on. An instrumental variable technique is employed to estimate peer effects in opioid...

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Historical Origins of a Major Killer : Cardiovascular Disease in the American South

Steckel, Richard H. - 2015

variance in current CVD mortality rates across the country …

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

Margolis, Jesse - 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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Does Decreased Access to Emergency Departments Affect Patient Outcomes? Analysis of AMI Population 1996-2005

Shen, Yu-Chu - 2011

codes fixed-effects regression models on the following AMI outcomes: time-specific mortality rates, age, and probability of … PTCA on the day of admission. We find a small increase in 30-day to 1-year mortality rates among patients in communities … time, we find a substantial increase in long-term mortality rates, a shift to younger ages (suggesting that the older ones …

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