18 results with keyword: 'three essays on health economics'
• Multiply the number of students being tested by 20 Kbps to get an estimate of bandwidth needed, and compare that estimate with a network speed test..
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Total number of office chairs sold in India = (100+90+60+40) million Ans = 290 million. How do you estimate the number of taxis (or auto rickshaws) in Mumbai (or
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This dissertation studies the short-term infant health effects of manipulation of birth timing, the short-term elderly health effects of retirement and long-run associations
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To reach this conclusion, I apply a two-stage least square model (2SLS) with hospital fixed-effects, time fixed-effects, and a hospital specific time trend; my instrumental
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Following the conceptual framework of “fetal origins” put forward by Douglas (2006), we demonstrate that the greater adaptability to intrauterine environment of
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In addition, to complement the star rating data and accommodate the empirical strategy of this study, through a special request to CMS, I obtain unpublished data including
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Regressions include controls for race and education of the younger spouse, quadratics in the age of both spouses separately interacted with dummy variables for Medicare eligibility
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In this paper a Cox Proportional Hazard Model with time varying covariates is utilized to estimate the probability that an individual disengages from their career job, given they
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I find evidence that the CMS case mix adjustment formula for patient experience measures in the Hospital Value-based Purchasing Program (HVBP) over-corrects (under-corrects) for
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Although the qualitative results for treatment efficacy and service demand differ- ences across insurance types are maintained when one controls for observed initial health
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Analyzing data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey on more than half a million physician office visits between 1993 and 2011, I find that three of the most common
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Operating cash flow was significantly related to investment per capital, suggesting that hospitals were liquidity constrained during the recession.. Again, the GMM estimate for AP
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Using federal and state variation in health insurance tax deductions for the self-employed between 1999 and 2005, I show that the effect of subsidies depend crucially on
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Table 1.2 illustrates the Hispanic paradox in birth outcomes reporting the differences between children of first- and second-generation immigrants coming from the three largest
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More specifically, I test the hypothesis that integrated plans that provide coverage for drug and non-drug expenditures within the Medicare program internalize negative
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In this paper, we characterize static and dynamic volatility spillovers in commod- ity futures markets from 1996 to 2016. In our static analysis we show that commodity futures are
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supply and demand sides of the tobacco market to a series of policy changes in 2002 in the following areas: (1) it establishes a relationship between the new cigarettes tax scheme
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