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Effect of reducing cost sharing for outpatient care on children's inpatient services in Japan

Kato, Hirotaka; Goto, Rei - In: Health economics review 7 (2017) 28, pp. 1-10

investigates the effects of reducing cost sharing for outpatient services on hospital admissions by exploring a subsidy policy for … outpatient care subsidy on the volume of inpatient care for 1390 Japanese municipalities was investigated using the generalized … hospital admissions, although this effect varies by region. The subsidy reduces the number of overall admissions in low …

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Early-life medical care and human capital accumulation : medical care and public health interventions in early childhood may improve human capital accumulation as well as child hea...

Daysal, N. Meltem - 2015

Ample empirical evidence links adverse conditions during early childhood (the period from conception to age five) to worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests...

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Child care subsidies and childhood obesity

Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - In: Review of Economics of the Household 9 (2011) 3, pp. 349-378

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A longitudinal analysis of fast-food exposure on child weight outcomes : identifying causality through school transitions

Dunn, Richard A.; Nayga, Rodolfo M.; Thomsen, Michael; … - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 1 (2021) 1, pp. 1-22

This article investigates the effect of fast-food availability on childhood weight outcomes by gender, race, and location. We use a novel identification strategy based on changes in fast-food exposure along the route between the home and school that occur as students progress through the public...

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Going universal : the impact of free school lunches on child body weight outcomes

Holford, Angus; Rabe, Birgitta - In: Journal of public economics plus 3 (2022), pp. 1-19

to high quality universal free lunches increases healthy weight prevalence and reduces obesity prevalence and BMI by the …

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The rise of noncommunicable diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean : challenges for public health policies

Anauati, Maria Victoria; Galiani, Sebastián; … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 24 (2015), pp. 1-56

moral hazard problems. The paper also focuses on obesity as a case example of an NCD, and emphasizes how lack of knowledge … manifest in obesity problems. …

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Childcare subsidy policy : what it can and cannot accomplish : what are the implications of childcare subsidies for care quality, family well-being, and child development?

Tekin, Erdal - 2014

Most public expenditure on childcare in the US is made through a federal program, the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF), established as part of landmark welfare reform legislation in 1996. The main goal of the reform was to increase employment and reduce welfare dependence among low-income...

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Healthy vs. unhealthy food : a strategic choice for firms and consumers

Antoñanzas Villar, Fernando; Rodríguez-Ibeas, Roberto - In: Health economics review 1 (2011) 4, pp. 1-8

In this paper, we carry out a theoretical analysis of the strategic choice made by firms regarding the type of food they market when they face consumers who care about the healthy/unhealthy attributes of the product but incur in emotional/health costs when the food they consume has unhealthy...

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Weight loss and sexual activity in adult obese individuals : establishing a causal link

Tauchmann, Harald; Wübker, Ansgar - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 243 (2023) 6, pp. 663-698

Obesity may not only be linked to undesirable health outcomes but also to limitations in sexual life. The present paper …

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Household food stamp program participation and childhood obesity

Robinson, Christina A.; Zheng, Xiaoyong - In: Journal of agricultural and resource economics : JARE ; … 36 (2011) 1, pp. 1-13

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