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Do Minimum Wage Increases Influence Worker Health?

Horn, Brady P. - 2017

This study investigates whether minimum wage increases in the United States affect an important non-market outcome: worker health. To study this question, we use data on lesser-skilled workers from the 1993-2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Surveys coupled with differences-in-differences...

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The Impact of Increased Cost-Sharing on Utilization of Low Value Services : Evidence from the State of Oregon

Gruber, Jonathan - 2017

In this study we examine the impact of a value-based insurance design (V-BID) program implemented between 2010 and 2013 at a large public employer in the state of Oregon. The program substantially increased cost-sharing, specifically copayments and coinsurance, for several healthcare services...

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Do Minimum Wage Increases Influence Worker Health?

Horn, Brady P. - 2017

This paper investigates whether minimum wage increases impact worker health in the United States. We consider self-reported measures of general, mental, and physical health. We use data on lesser-skilled workers from the 1993 to 2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey. Among men, we find...

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The impact of increased cost-sharing on utilization of low value services : evidence from the state of Oregon

Gruber, Jonathan; Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Wright, Bill - 2017

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Do minimum wage Increases influence worker health?

Horn, Brady P.; Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Strain, … - 2017

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"More children, more happiness?" : new evidence from elderly parents in China

Gao, Yanyan; Qu, Zhaopeng - 2019 - This version: July 2019

the cohort and provincial variations of elderly parents exposed to the one-child policy in China. Using nationally … square and two-stage least square methods find that more children can enhance elderly parents’ subjective well-being (SWB …) measured with either life satisfaction or depression mood. The effect is channelled by raising their satisfaction with children …

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The Effects of Health Information Exchange Access on Healthcare Quality and Efficiency : An Empirical Investigation

Janakiraman, Ramkumar - 2017

Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) are designed to improve the efficiency and quality of healthcare through enhanced information sharing between disparate health entities. The objective of this study is to systematically examine the impact of HIE use in emergency departments (EDs) on quality...

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Personality, Job Satisfaction and Health - The Mediating Influence of Affectivity

Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2011

This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health of workers over 50 using the Swiss Household Panel (SHP) and cross-sectional data from the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). Methodologically, it addresses two important design problems...

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Estimating Conditional Vaccine Effectiveness

Ioannidis, John P. A. - 2022

Vaccine effectiveness for COVID-19 is typically estimated for different outcomes that often are hierarchical in severity (e.g. any documented infection, symptomatic infection, hospitalization, death) and which may be subsets of each other. Conditional effectiveness for a more severe outcome...

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Retirement and informal care-giving : behavioral patterns among older workers

Raab, Roman - 2017

This paper uses panel data from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to study the effect of care-giving on retirement. The findings suggest that care- and support-giving contributes to the retirement decision, in particular for men. While the frequency of care activities...

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