Showing papers in "Journal of Health Economics in 2021"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the effect of social capital on health outcomes during the Covid-19 pandemic in independent analyses for Austria, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate the impact of indoor face mask mandates and other non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) on COVID-19 case growth in Canada and find that mask mandates are associated with a 22 percent weekly reduction in new COVID19 cases, relative to the trend in absence of mandate.

TL;DR: It is found that low emission zones reduce the number of patients with cardiovascular disease by 2-3%.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate how the anticipation of COVID-19 vaccines affects voluntary social distancing and find that vaccine information reduces peoples' voluntary social distance, adherence to hygiene guidelines, and their willingness to stay at home.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors build a new database documenting the evolution of physician migration over a period of 25 years and use it to empirically shed light on its determinants, finding that physician migration is a complex phenomenon that results from a myriad of push, pull, and dyadic factors.

TL;DR: Using commercial insurance claims data, the first evidence is provided on a set of new policies intended to reduce opioid initiation in the form of limits on initial prescription length, which finds that MA-PDMPs reduce opioids dispensed to new users, even though they do not explicitly set out to do so.

TL;DR: The effect of a large nationwide tax reform on sugar-added drinks and caloric-dense food introduced in Mexico in 2014 is measured using scanner data containing weekly purchases by 8,130 households and an RD design to find that calories purchased from taxed drinks and taxed food decreased respectively.

TL;DR: The results suggest that even if must-access PDMPs reduce prescription opioid deaths, the decrease is offset by a large increase in illegal opioid deaths.

TL;DR: The authors examined how the recent transition of the opioid crisis from prescription opioids to more prevalent misuse of illicit opioids, such as heroin and fentanyl, altered labor supply behavior and disability insurance claiming rates.

TL;DR: Following a 2007 reform in the Federal District of Mexico which decriminalised and subsidised early-term elective abortion, multiple other Mexican states increased sanctions on illegal abortion.

TL;DR: Using three population surveys, this paper provides robust empirical evidence that respondents who overestimate their health are less likely to exercise and sleep enough, but more likely to eat unhealthily and drink alcohol daily.

TL;DR: Estimates indicate that the introduction of the mandatory waiting period in Tennessee caused a 62-percent increase in the share of abortions obtained during the second trimester, completely closing the pre-existing gap between Tennessee and the comparison states.

TL;DR: Later-born children have better health endowments at birth and are less likely to be preterm or preterm, and less likely hospitalized for perinatal conditions as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate the impact of French town hall elections held in mid-March 2020 on the mortality of 163,000 male candidates aged above 60, whose excess mortality during March and April was similar to the general population.

TL;DR: This paper compares the care received by a group of patients that should have the best possible information on health care service efficacy with a comparable group of non-physician patients, taking various steps to account for unobservable differences between the two groups.

TL;DR: In this article, the causal effects of household income on self-reported health status by exploiting random variations in the amount of lottery prizes won were investigated in a country without strong social safety nets, and they found that a S$10,000 (US$7,245) increase in income via lottery wins improves individuals' health by a standard deviation of 0.18.

TL;DR: The results show that there is a causal link between health and income per person, and they provide novel evidence that health dynamics shape life-cycle incomes.

TL;DR: This work measures negotiated prices for hospital-payer pairs in Massachusetts and characterize price variation, and shows that contractual form and demand responsiveness to negotiated prices are important determinants of negotiated prices.

TL;DR: This article examined the impact of early state and local COVID-19 policies to encourage social distancing and found that much of the decline in foot traffic early in the pandemic was due to private precautionary behavior.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how time pressure, an important constraint faced by medical care providers, affects productivity in primary care and generated empirical predictions by incorporating time pressure into a model of physician behavior by Tai-Seale and McGuire.

TL;DR: Access to contraceptives may prevent conceptions that will turn out to be in relatively poor health, and thereby may improve the average health of children conceived, according to the seasonality of conceptions and the general trends of fertility.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper provided evidence on China's efforts to promote PHC management using unique five-year panel data in a rural county, including health care utilization from medical claims and health outcomes from biomarkers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of a randomized controlled trial that successfully uses incentives to improve medication adherence among HIV-infected patients in Uganda over 20 months, and follows the sample for another 6 months to measure the persistence of these behavioral improvements.

TL;DR: It is shown that the prioritarian SVRR provides a rigorous basis in economic theory for the “fair innings” concept, proposed in the public health literature: as between an older individual and a similarly situated younger individual, a risk reduction for the younger individual is accorded greater social weight even if the gains to expected lifetime utility are equal.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the heterogeneous effects of particle pollution on Italian daily hospitalizations and their costs by exploiting public transportation strikes as plausibly-exogenous shocks in pollution exposure.

TL;DR: The authors examined whether the least educated population groups experienced the worst mortality trends at the beginning of the 21st century by measuring changes in mortality across education quartiles and found that mortality trends improved fairly monotonically with education.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of marijuana liberalization policies on perinatal health with a multi-period difference-in-differences estimator that exploited variation in effective dates of medical marijuana laws and recreational marijuana laws (RML).

TL;DR: This article conducted a clustered randomised trial in 160 villages in Lao PDR to evaluate the effectiveness of combining financial incentives with Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), a widely-conducted behaviour change program.

TL;DR: In this article, a hospital-physician integration was examined and the authors found a 3-5% increase in hospital prices following the integration, with little indication that hospital quality is commensurately higher or patient mix has changed following integration, pointing to stronger bargaining leverage and foreclosure of rival hospitals as potential mechanisms for the estimated price effects.

TL;DR: The investigation of hospitals accused of billing Medicare for unnecessary implantable cardiac defibrillator procedures had a large and long-lasting effect on physician behavior, indicating the utility of antifraud enforcement as a tool for reducing wasteful medical care.