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Forecasting the Effects of Obesity and Smoking on U.S. Life Expectancy
(Massachusetts Medical Society, 2009)
Background: While increases in obesity over the past 30 years have adversely affected population health, there have been concomitant improvements due to reductions in smoking. Better understanding of the joint effects of ...
Financial Crisis, Health Outcomes, and Aging: Mexico in the 1980s and 1990s
(Elsevier, 2002)
We study the impact of economic crisis on health in Mexico. There have been four wide-scale economic crises in Mexico in the past two decades, the most recent in 1995–96. We find that mortality rates for the very young and ...
The Determinants of Mortality
(American Economic Association, 2006)
The pleasures of life are worth nothing if one is not alive to experience them. Through the twentieth century in the United States and other high-income countries, growth in real incomes was accompanied by a historically ...
Increasing Health Insurance Costs and the Decline in Health Insurance Coverage
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2005)
Objective. To determine the impact of rising health insurance premiums on coverage rates.
Data Sources & Study Setting. Our analysis is based on two cohorts of nonelderly Americans residing in 64 large metropolitan ...
Why Have Americans Become More Obese
(American Economic Association, 2003)
Americans have become considerably more obese over the past 25 years. This increase is primarily the result of consuming more calories. The increase in food consumption is itself the result of technological innovations ...
Walking the Tightrope on Medicare Reform
(American Economic Association, 2000)
A central controversy in the debate about Medicare is whether the program spends too much money or whether instead it should be expanded to cover more. I consider the value of increased Medicare spending. I argue that on ...
Autopsy on an Empire: Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union
(American Economic Association, 2005)
Male life expectancy at birth fell by over six years in Russia between 1989 and 1994. Many other countries of the former Soviet Union saw similar declines, and female life expectancy fell as well. Using cross-country and ...
Technological Development and Medical Productivity: The Diffusion of Angioplasty in New York State
(Elsevier, 2003)
A puzzling feature of many medical innovations is that they simultaneously appear to reduce unit costs and increase total costs. We consider this phenomenon by examining the diffusion of percutaneous transluminal coronary ...
The Lifetime Costs and Benefits of Medical Technology
(Elsevier, 2007)
Measuring the lifetime costs and benefits of medical technologies is essential in evaluating technological change and determining the productivity of medical care. Using data on Medicare beneficiaries with a heart attack ...
How Does Managed Care Do It?
(Rand Journal of Economics, 2000)
Integrating the health services and insurance industries, as health maintenance organizations (HMOs) do, could lower expenditure by reducing either the quantity of services or unit price or both. We compare the treatment ...