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The effects of a hypertension diagnosis on health behaviors: A two‐dimensional regression discontinuity analysis
The effects of a hypertension diagnosis on health behaviors: A two‐dimensional regression discontinuity analysis
Abstract This paper explores how a diagnosis of hypertension might affect a person's health-related behaviors. The analysi...
Moving out but not for the better: Health consequences of interprovincial rural‐urban migration in China
Moving out but not for the better: Health consequences of interprovincial rural‐urban migration in China
Abstract Using panel data from a survey conducted by the Research Center for Rural Economy, this study overcomes the selec...
Getting used to terrorist threats? Evidence from French terrorist attacks between 2015 and 2016
Getting used to terrorist threats? Evidence from French terrorist attacks between 2015 and 2016
Abstract This paper evaluates the effect on mental health of consecutive terrorist attacks in France in 2015 and 2016. We ...
Fear of COVID‐19 contagion and consumption: Evidence from a survey of Italian households
Fear of COVID‐19 contagion and consumption: Evidence from a survey of Italian households
Abstract Using a new survey of Italian households, we study the effect of fear of COVID-19 contagion and income risk on co...
Providing vouchers and value information for already free eye exams increases uptake among a low‐income minority population: A randomized trial
Providing vouchers and value information for already free eye exams increases uptake among a low‐income minority population: A randomized trial
Abstract We study whether vouchers without and with value information encourage attendance of already free follow-up appoi...
Measuring and valuing broader impacts in public health: Development of a sanitation‐related quality of life instrument in Maputo, Mozambique
Measuring and valuing broader impacts in public health: Development of a sanitation‐related quality of life instrument in Maputo, Mozambique
Abstract Two billion people globally lack access to a basic toilet. While improving sanitation reduces infectious disease,...
Forgetting‐by‐not‐doing: The case of surgeons and cesarean sections
Forgetting‐by‐not‐doing: The case of surgeons and cesarean sections
Abstract This paper provides new evidence on the link between patient outcome and physician experience. Using birth certif...
Predicting vaccine hesitancy from area‐level indicators: A machine learning approach
Predicting vaccine hesitancy from area‐level indicators: A machine learning approach
Abstract Vaccine hesitancy (VH) might represent a serious threat to the next COVID-19 mass immunization campaign. We use m...
Technology adoption by primary care physicians
Technology adoption by primary care physicians
Abstract We study primary care physicians' prevention and monitoring technology adoption. Physicians' adoption decisions a...
Not all respondents use a multiplicative utility function in choice experiments for health state valuations, which should be reflected in the elicitation format (or statistical analysis)
Not all respondents use a multiplicative utility function in choice experiments for health state valuations, which should be reflected in the elicitation format (or statistical analysis)
Abstract Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) that include health states and duration are becoming a common method for estim...
Development of a model to demonstrate the impact of National Institute of Health and Care Excellence cost‐effectiveness assessment on health utility for targeted medicines
Development of a model to demonstrate the impact of National Institute of Health and Care Excellence cost‐effectiveness assessment on health utility for targeted medicines
Abstract Advances in medical technology have led to a better understanding of heterogeneity of diseases and patients, and ...
Natural disasters and missing children
Natural disasters and missing children
Abstract Using an exogenous measure of natural disasters based on physical intensities, I examine their impact on child mo...
Multivariate risk preferences in the quality‐adjusted life year model
Multivariate risk preferences in the quality‐adjusted life year model
Abstract The interest in multivariate and higher-order risk preferences has increased. A growing body of literature has de...
Rationing of a scarce life‐saving resource: Public preferences for prioritizing COVID‐19 vaccination
Rationing of a scarce life‐saving resource: Public preferences for prioritizing COVID‐19 vaccination
Abstract In the face of limited COVID-19 vaccine supply, governments have had to identify priority groups for vaccination....
Utility maximization versus regret minimization in health choice behavior: Evidence from four datasets
Utility maximization versus regret minimization in health choice behavior: Evidence from four datasets
Abstract Choice models in health are almost exclusively based on the neoclassical economic paradigm of utility maximizatio...
Impact of COVID‐19 lockdowns on mental health: Evidence from a quasi‐natural experiment in England and Scotland
Impact of COVID‐19 lockdowns on mental health: Evidence from a quasi‐natural experiment in England and Scotland
Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has been associated with worsening mental health but it is unclear whether this is a direct...
Flipping the script: The effects of opioid prescription monitoring on specialty‐specific provider behavior
Flipping the script: The effects of opioid prescription monitoring on specialty‐specific provider behavior
Abstract Mandatory access Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (MA-PDMPs) aim to curb the epidemic at a common point of i...
Heterogeneous health effects of medical marijuana legalization: Evidence from young adults in the United States
Heterogeneous health effects of medical marijuana legalization: Evidence from young adults in the United States
Abstract Legalizing marijuana for medical purposes is a longstanding debate. However, evidence of marijuana's health effec...
To be or not to be: Future lives in economic evaluation
To be or not to be: Future lives in economic evaluation
Abstract Sometimes healthcare will affect the health of people living in the future, or their chance of coming into existe...
Health insurance and subjective well‐being: Evidence from two healthcare reforms in the United States
Health insurance and subjective well‐being: Evidence from two healthcare reforms in the United States
Abstract We study the role of access to health insurance coverage as a determinant of individuals' subjective well-being (...
Sugar rush or sugar crash? Experimental evidence on the impact of sugary drinks in the classroom
Sugar rush or sugar crash? Experimental evidence on the impact of sugary drinks in the classroom
Abstract Sugary drinks in schools have been demonized for their potential long-term contribution to rising obesity rates. ...
Social acceptability of standard and behavioral economic inspired policies designed to reduce and prevent obesity
Social acceptability of standard and behavioral economic inspired policies designed to reduce and prevent obesity
Abstract The obesity epidemic is a significant public policy issue facing the international community, resulting in substa...
Whose mental health declines during economic downturns?
Whose mental health declines during economic downturns?
Abstract Prior research shows that economic downturns are associated with increases in mental illness. However, we know li...
The effects of drug safety warnings on drug sales and share prices
The effects of drug safety warnings on drug sales and share prices
Abstract Current regulations require that when seeking approval for new drugs, pharmaceutical companies must demonstrate t...
How effective has the Spanish lockdown been to battle COVID‐19? A spatial analysis of the coronavirus propagation across provinces
How effective has the Spanish lockdown been to battle COVID‐19? A spatial analysis of the coronavirus propagation across provinces
Abstract This paper examines the propagation of COVID-19 across the Spanish provinces and assesses the effectiveness of th...
Re‐exploring the early relationship between teenage cigarette and e‐cigarette use using price and tax changes
Re‐exploring the early relationship between teenage cigarette and e‐cigarette use using price and tax changes
Abstract In 2016, the Surgeon General used longitudinal cohort studies to conclude that youth e-cigarette use is strongly ...
Violence and newborn health: Estimates for Colombia
Violence and newborn health: Estimates for Colombia
Abstract This paper examines the relationship between maternal exposure to violence during pregnancy and newborn birthweig...
The role of wage beliefs in the decision to become a nurse
The role of wage beliefs in the decision to become a nurse
Abstract In light of skilled-labor shortage, the effect of a change in the wage of nurses on their labor supply is intense...
Mosquito‐borne disease and newborn health
Mosquito‐borne disease and newborn health
Abstract While mosquito-borne diseases are currently most prevalent in mid-latitude countries, rising global temperatures ...
Supplementary private health insurance: The impact of physician financial incentives on medical practice
Supplementary private health insurance: The impact of physician financial incentives on medical practice
Abstract In the French diagnosis-related group (DRG)-based payment system, both private and public hospitals are financed ...
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