The economic consequences of hospital admissions

C Dobkin, A Finkelstein, R Kluender… - American Economic …, 2018 - aeaweb.org
We use an event study approach to examine the economic consequences of hospital
admissions for adults in two datasets: survey data from the Health and Retirement Study …

Factors influencing study engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study among health and social professions students

C Koob, K Schröpfer, M Coenen, S Kus, N Schmidt - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background The aim of this study is to explore factors influencing the study engagement of
health and social professions students during the COVID-19 pandemic. While antecedents …

Gender and health

MP Matud - Gender differences in different contexts, 2017 - books.google.com
Research has found differences between women and men in some health indicators.
Women's life expectancy is higher than men's, but research on differences in morbidity has …

[HTML][HTML] Factors affecting Brazilians' self-rated health during the COVID-19 pandemic

CL Szwarcwald, GN Damacena, MBA Barros… - Cadernos de saude …, 2021 - SciELO Brasil
This is a cross-sectional study investigating the factors affecting brazilians' self-rated health
during the COVID-19 pandemic, based on data from the web-based behavior survey …

Does long-term care subsidization reduce hospital admissions and utilization?

J Costa-Font, S Jimenez-Martin, C Vilaplana - Journal of health economics, 2018 - Elsevier
We use quasi-experimental evidence on the expansion of the public subsidization of long-
term care to examine the causal effect of a change in caregiving affordability on the delivery …

The effects of income on health: new evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit

O Lenhart - Review of Economics of the Household, 2019 - Springer
This study examines the relationship between income and health by using an expansion of
the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), which increased benefits to households with at least …

The effect of medical marijuana laws on the health and labor supply of older adults: Evidence from the health and retirement study

LH Nicholas, JC Maclean - Journal of Policy Analysis and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Older adults are at elevated risk of reducing labor supply due to poor health, partly because
of high rates of symptoms that may be alleviated by medical marijuana. Yet, surprisingly little …

Gender, self-rated health and functional decline among community-dwelling older adults

RM Gyasi, DR Phillips - Archives of gerontology and geriatrics, 2018 - Elsevier
Objective This paper examines the association between self-rated health (SRH) and
functional decline (FD) in older Ghanaian cohorts and investigates whether the effect differs …

Do higher minimum wages benefit health? Evidence from the UK

O Lenhart - Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines the link between minimum wages and health outcomes by using the
introduction of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) in the United Kingdom in 1999 as an …

[HTML][HTML] Residential surrounding green, air pollution, traffic noise and self-perceived general health

JO Klompmaker, NAH Janssen, LD Bloemsma… - Environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Self-perceived general health (SGH) is one of the most inclusive and widely used measures
of health status and a powerful predictor of mortality. However, only a limited number of …