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Racial Concordance and the Quality of Medical Care : Evidence from the Military
Frakes, Michael; Gruber, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
One explanation for insufficient use of primary care in the U.S. is a lack of trust between patients and providers - particularly along racial lines. We assess the role of racial concordance between patients and medical providers in driving use of preventive care and the implications for patient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477259
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Reducing Ordeals through Automatic Enrollment : Evidence from a Health Insurance Exchange
Shepard, Mark; Wagner, Myles - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Incomplete health insurance enrollment is a persistent U.S. challenge despite large subsidies. We ask whether hassles built into enrollment systems matter for insurance take-up and targeting. Studying removal of an auto-enrollment policy, we find that a small hassle - a requirement to actively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477273
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Fundamentally Reforming the DI System : Evidence from German Notch Cohorts
Fischer, Bjoern; Geyer, Johannes Micha; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
lifecycle work disability risk, (2) strong and positive income and health gradients in private ODI take-up, and (3) inversely … related income and health gradients in the lifecycle work disability risk. Simulations illustrate that policy reforms to lower … administrative costs have the greatest potential to foster take-up and flatten its income and health gradients …
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The Effect of Medicaid Expansion on the Take-up of Disability Benefits by Race and Ethnicity
Staiger, Becky; Helfer, Madeline S.; Van Parys, Jessica - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Public disability programs provide financial support to 12 million working-age individuals per year, though not all … take-up. Using 2009-2020 Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we compare changes in Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337791
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Do PCI Facility Openings Differentially Affect AMI Patients by Individual Race and Community Segregation?
Hsia, Renee Y.; Shen, Yu-Chu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Percutaneous coronary intervention facility openings may have differential effects on treatment and health outcomes for Black versus White patients in residentially segregated versus integrated communities. This study looked at changes in patient treatment and health outcomes (same-day PCI, PCI...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337858
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Heterogeneous and Racialized Impacts of State Incarceration Policies on Birth Outcomes in the U.S
Boen, Courtney; Bair, Elizabeth; Lee, Hedwig; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
While state incarceration policies have received much attention in research on the causes of mass incarceration in the U.S., their roles in shaping population health and health disparities remain largely unknown. We examine the impacts of two signature state incarceration policies adopted during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437019
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'We Are Not Guinea Pigs' : The Effects of Disclosure of Medical Misconduct on Vaccine Compliance
Archibong, Belinda; Annan, Francis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
In 1996, following an epidemic, Pfizer tested a new drug on 200 children in Muslim Nigeria. 11 children died while others were disabled. We study the effects of the disclosure, in 2000, of the deaths of Muslim children in the Pfizer trials on vaccine compliance among Muslim mothers. Muslim...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372412
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Externalities from Medical Innovation : Evidence from Organ Transplantation
Callison, Kevin; Darden, Michael; Teltser, Keith F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We evaluate the introduction of direct-acting antiviral (DAA) therapy for Hepatitis C (HCV) on liver transplant allocation in the United States. We develop a model of listing and organ acceptance behavior for patients with both HCV-positive and HCV-negative end-stage liver disease. In the model,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372430
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Adjusting for Scale-Use Heterogeneity in Self-Reported Well-Being
Benjamin, Daniel J.; Cooper, Kristen B; Heffetz, Ori; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Analyses of self-reported-well-being (SWB) survey data may be confounded if people use response scales differently. We use calibration questions, designed to have the same objective answer across respondents, to measure dimensional (i.e., specific to an SWB dimension) and general (i.e., common...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372485
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Investigator Racial Diversity and Clinical Trial Participation
Alsan, Marcella; Campbell, Romaine A.; Leister, Lukas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We investigate whether increased racial diversity of clinical trial principal investigators could increase the enrollment of Black patients, which currently lags population and disease-burden shares. We conducted a survey experiment in which respondents were shown a photo of a current NIH...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372489