A5007804610- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Global Health Care Issues
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Retirement, Disability, and Employment
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Housing Market and Economics
- Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Religion, Society, and Development
- Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- Religion and Society Interactions
- Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Work-Family Balance Challenges
- Endometriosis Research and Treatment
- Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer
Georgetown University
2014-2024
Boston Medical Center
2023
University Medical Center
2023
Boston University
2023
Wisconsin Department of Health Services
2023
Texas A&M University
2014-2023
Johns Hopkins University
2023
Centre for European Economic Research
2023
IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
2002-2019
National Bureau of Economic Research
2007-2019
This study aimed to calculate costs and health-related quality of life women with endometriosis-associated symptoms treated in referral centres. A prospective, multi-centre, questionnaire-based survey measured ambulatory care 12 tertiary centres 10 countries. The enrolled a diagnosis endometriosis at least one centre-specific contact related 2008. main outcome measures were health costs, productivity loss, total quality-adjusted years. Predictors identified using regression analysis. Data...
To what extent do the management of endometriosis and symptoms that remain after treatment affect quality life in women with disease? Many had impaired continued to suffer from endometriosis-associated even though their has been managed tertiary care centres. The existing literature indicates work productivity is reduced endometriosis. However, most studies have small sample sizes, are related or examine newly diagnosed patients only. A cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey among 931...
To determine (1) whether short sleep has increased over 31 years; (2) trends in differed by employment status; (3) which sociodemographic factors predict sleep; and (4) how sleepers spend their time. Time diaries from eight national studies conducted between 1975 2006. U.S. adults ≥ 18 years. Short were defined as those reporting < 6 hours of time diary. Unadjusted percentages ranged 7.6% to 9.3% The 1998–99 study had the highest odds sleep. ratio for 31-year period predicting was 1.14 (95%...
Administrative burden is an individual's experience of policy implementation as onerous. Such burdens may be created because a desire to limit payments ineligible claimants, but they also serve take‐up benefits by eligible claimants. For citizens, this occur through learning about program; complying with rules and discretionary bureaucratic behavior participate; the psychological costs participating in unpopular program. Using mixed‐method approach, authors explain process changes that...
Objectives. The authors sought to determine the effects of cold-weather periods on budgets and nutritional outcomes among poor American families. Methods. Consumer Expenditure Survey was used track expenditures food home fuels, Third National Health Nutrition Examination calorie consumption, dietary quality, vitamin deficiencies, anemia. Results. Both richer families increased fuel in response unusually cold weather. Poor reduced by roughly same amount as their increase expenditures, whereas...
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is analyzed in terms its effects on the employment and wages disabled men using data from Survey Income Program Participation. results indicate that, as early 1990, rates disabilities decreased dramatically continued to decrease through beginning 1995. On average over post-ADA period, was 7.2 percentage points lower than before passed. In addition, did not change passage ADA.
OBJECTIVE: The authors determined the costs associated with generalized social anxiety disorder in a managed care setting. METHOD: A three-phase mail and telephone survey was conducted from July to October 1998 two outpatient clinics of large health maintenance organization (HMO). assessed direct costs, indirect health-related quality life, clinical severity disorder, both alone comorbid psychopathology. RESULTS: weighted prevalence rate current 8.2%. In past year, only 0.5% subjects had...
Abstract We present an economic model of how teenagers' outlooks—specifically their locus control—affect human capital investments. Locus control measures the extent to which a person believes actions affect outcomes. The allows assessment return education. effect eighth graders' on high school completion and college attendance is examined using National Educational Longitudinal Study. results indicate that influences education decisions suggests operates through expectations returns
Importance Primary care (PC) receipt is associated with better health outcomes. How telehealth expansion and internet speed are PC use unclear. Objective To examine the association of across sociodemographic determinants health. Design, Setting, Participants This cohort study performed difference-in-differences regression change in in-person visits between pre–COVID-19 public emergency (PHE) (June 1, 2019, to February 29, 2020) an initial (March 2020, May 31, prolonged December 2021) PHE...
This paper presents an economic model of how teenagers’ outlooks–specifically their locus control–affect human capital investments. Locus control, or internal-external attitudes, is a psychological measure person’s belief regarding the causal relationship between his her own behavior and outcomes. The allows control to operate through assessment return investments has testable implications that distinguish it from in which proxy for unobserved ability. effect eighth graders’ on decisions...
This article examines worker sorting across occupations in response to the risk of death on job. We use family structure as a proxy for willingness trade safety wages test proposition that workers with strong aversion this sort into safer jobs. estimate conditional logit models occupation choice function injury and other job attributes. Our results confirm hypothesis: within gender, single moms dads are most averse risk. Overall, differences explain about one‐quarter occupational gender segregation.
A group of health-impaired workers who self-report in the Survey Income and Program Participation that their productivity is not affected by impairment used to separately measure effects discrimination from poor health on earnings 1984 1993. The results indicate that, 1984, only 3.7 percentage points gap due amount did decrease Although change over 1993 period, negative people with disabilities fell substantially.
U.S. state and local governments have increasingly adopted restrictions on smoking in public places. This paper analyzes nationally representative databases, including the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, to compare short-term changes mortality hospitalization rates smoking-restricted regions with control regions. In contrast smaller regional studies, we find that bans are not associated statistically significant declines or hospital admissions for myocardial infarction other diseases. An...
We document trends in the volatility earnings and household incomes between 1985 2005 three different data sources: administrative records, Survey of Income Program Participation (SIPP) matched to SIPP survey data. In all sources, we find a substantial amount year-to-year workers' incomes. sources that contain earnings, has been roughly constant, even declined slightly, since mid-1980s. These findings differ from what is found using reported previous studies.
Employees with a desire to help others provide benefits their organization, clients, and fellow workers, but what do they get in return? We argue that the prosocial is basic human goal matters an individual's happiness. employ both longitudinal cross-sectional data demonstrate work-related motivation associated higher subjective well-being, terms of current happiness life satisfaction later life. Cross-sectional also suggest perceived social impact (the belief one's job making difference)...
As states consider expanding Medicaid to low-income childless adults under the Affordable Care Act, their decisions will depend, in part, on how such coverage may affect use of medical care. In 2009 Wisconsin created a new public insurance program for uninsured adults. We analyzed administrative claims data spanning 2008 and using case-crossover study design population 9,619 residents with very low incomes who were automatically enrolled this January 2009. twelve months following enrollment...
Abstract Introduction Individuals with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) are at elevated risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia. Methods With data from the Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study, we used Clinical Dementia Rating Sum Boxes classifications to conduct a cross‐sectional analysis assessing relationship between state various direct indirect costs health care utilization patterns. Results Patients aMCI had less medical expenditures than patients moderate severe...
While many studies have found that the EITC increases employment rates of single mothers, no study to date has examined whether jobs taken by mothers as a result incentives are "dead-end" or potential for earnings growth. Using panel administrative data linked nationally representative survey data, we find evidence expansions between 1994 and 1996 induced take jobs. If anything, increase in growth during mid-to-late 1990s who were particularly affected expansion was higher than it other...