Showing papers in "Journal of Health Economics in 2015"

TL;DR: MMLs have no discernible impact on drinking behavior for those aged 12-20, or the use of other psychoactive substances in either age group, but increase in the probability of current marijuana use, regular marijuana use and marijuana abuse/dependence among those aged 21 or above.

TL;DR: Over the 1976-2010 period, total mortality shifted from strongly procyclical to being weakly or unrelated to macroeconomic conditions, and countercyclical patterns have emerged for fatalities from cancer mortality and external causes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the impact of environmental regulations in China on infant mortality and found that the greatest reduction in mortality occurred during the neonatal period, highlighting an important pathophysiologic mechanism.

TL;DR: Findings suggest that broader access to medical marijuana facilitates substitution of marijuana for powerful and addictive opioids.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the mechanisms behind the health effects of retirement using a regression discontinuity design to exploit financial incentives in the German pension system for identification, and found that retirement improves subjective health status and mental health, while also reducing outpatient care utilization.

TL;DR: The evidence suggests that there is no single dominant economic cause of obesity; a wide variety of factors may contribute a modest amount to the risk and a range of policies may be necessary to have a substantial effect on the prevalence of obesity.

TL;DR: The financial incentive programme was associated with a substitution away from private health providers, an increase in breastfeeding and more pregnancies, and the potential for financial incentives to have unanticipated effects that may undermine the programme's own objective of reducing mortality is demonstrated.

TL;DR: It is found that children born to mothers most likely to have benefited from the reforms were about 21% less likely to die than childrenBorn to slightly older mothers and that increased education leads to delayed age at marriage, sexual debut, and first birth.

TL;DR: In this paper, the implications of the expansion on inpatient hospitalizations of young adults with mental health needs were studied. But, they did not find that the intensity of inpatient treatment changed despite the change in reimbursement composition of patients.

TL;DR: In this paper, the first major insurance expansion of the Affordable Care Act -a provision requiring dependents to remain on parents' health insurance until turning 26 - took effect in September 2010, and the authors estimate this mandate's impacts on numerous outcomes related to health care access, preventive care utilization, risky behaviors, and self-assessed health.

TL;DR: A significantly negative effect of exposure during the first trimester of gestation on employment outcomes 53 or more years after birth is found and hospitalization rates in the years before retirement are higher after middle or late gestational exposure.

TL;DR: Examination of the causal impact of e-cigarette access on conventional cigarette use by adolescents finds that banning electronic cigarette sales to minors counteracts 70 percent of the downward pre-trend in teen cigarette smoking for a given two-year period.

TL;DR: In this article, a two-equation model was proposed for fast food consumption in adolescents in secondary schools in the U.S. based on a quasi-maximum likelihood approach that allows to control for common environment at the network level and to solve the simultaneity (reflection) problem.

TL;DR: It is found that incentives have large influences: in the control, 17% of children prefer thehealthy snack, whereas introduction of small incentives increases take-up of the healthy snack to ∼75%, consistent with a model of habit formation.

TL;DR: It is found that TDI paid maternity leave reduces the share of low birth weight births, and the estimated treatment-on-the-treated effect is over 10 percent, and it also decreases the likelihood of early term birth by 6.6 percent.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the short-run changes in health, health care access, and health care utilization after job loss that lead to these long-term effects and found that job loss results in worse self-reported health, activity limitations, and worse mental health, but is not associated with statistically significant increases in specific chronic conditions.

TL;DR: Analysis of the relationship between economic conditions and health with a focus on different approaches to geographic aggregation reveals that the results are sensitive to the level of geographic aggregation with more-disaggregated analyses-particularly county-level analyses-routinely producing estimates that are smaller in magnitude.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the take-up and impacts of low-cost improved stoves through a randomized controlled trial and concluded that in order to assess the effectiveness of a technology-oriented intervention, it is critical to not only account for the incidence of technology adoption, but also for the way the new technology is used.

TL;DR: It is found the CAAA caused substantial improvements in fetal health, in addition to previously identified reductions in post-natal mortality, and a model of potential bias in measuring observed fetal deaths is discussed.

TL;DR: This work investigates trends in the U.S. rate of teen childbearing between 1981 and 2010, focusing specifically on the sizable decline since 1991, and finds the recent decline cannot be explained by the changing racial and ethnic composition of teens.

TL;DR: The results suggest that there is a considerable negative short-term effect of informal care provision on mental health which fades out over time, and five years after care provision the effect is still negative but smaller and insignificant.

TL;DR: This work uses the variation from the implementation and changes in state policies that expanded dependent health insurance coverage to examine how young adults adjusted their labor supply when they were able to be covered as a dependent on their parent's plan.

TL;DR: Positive migration effects seem to compensate the elderly for decreasing social contact with their migrant family members, and are linked to an income effect which leads to improvements in diet and reallocation of time use from subsistence farming to leisure and sleep which may have further beneficial effects.

TL;DR: Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, it is found support for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the determinants of several LTC services and unmet need using data from a representative sample of the non-institutionalised disabled population in Spain in 2008.

TL;DR: It is found that premiums are indeed higher for plans sold in markets with higher levels of concentration relevant to insurer transactions with employers, lower for plans in Markets withHigher levels of insurer concentrationrelevant to insurer bargaining with hospitals, and higher for Plans in marketsWith higher level of hospital market concentration.

TL;DR: It is found that immigrants to Germany are healthier than natives upon their arrival but that immigrants' health deteriorates over time, and it is shown that the convergence in health is heterogeneous across immigrants and occurs more rapidly among those working in more physically demanding jobs.

TL;DR: The effect of in utero exposure to a shock - civil conflict in Nepal - on fetal loss, gender and health at birth and that of gender in other applied economics contexts is analyzed.

TL;DR: This article is among the first to detect an effect of Medicaid coverage on a clinical health outcome other than mortality, and may have implications for states expanding Medicaid coverage to adults with incomes of up to 138% of the federal poverty threshold under the Affordable Care Act.

TL;DR: The contributions of travel distance and preferences for racial homogeneity as sources of nursing home segregation and racial disparities in nursing home quality are examined.