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210005: Displacement and Mortality After a Disaster: Deaths of Puerto Ricans in the United States Post-Hurricane Maria

Mario Marazzi, Boriana Miloucheva and Gustavo Bobonis

210003: Consideration of Trade-offs Regarding COVID-19 Containment Measures in the United States: Implications for Canada

Mayvis Rebeira and Eric Nauenberg

210002: Influenza Pandemics and Macroeconomic Fluctuations in Recent Economic History

Fraser Summerfield and Livio Di Matteo

210001: Heterogeneity in the Support for Mandatory Masks Unveiled

Muhammad Maaz, Anastasios Papanastasiou, Bradley Ruffle and Angela Zheng

200004: Compliance with Social Distancing: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Ontario during COVID-19

Anastasios Papanastasiou, Bradley Ruffle and Angela Zheng

200003: An Empirical Examination of the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board Price Control Amendments on Drug Launches in Canada

Oliver Spicer and Paul Grootendorst

200002: Impact of Quality-Based Procedures on Orthopedic Care Quantity and Quality in Ontario Hospitals

Alex Proshin, Adrian Rohit Dass, Lise Rochaix and Audrey Laporte

200001: ADHD Misidentification in School: Causes and Mitigators

Jill Furzer, Elizabeth Dhuey and Audrey Laporte

190001: Publication Bias and Editorial Statement on Negative Findings

Cristina Blanco-Perez and Abel Brodeur

180003: On the importance of the upside down test in absolute socioeconomic health inequality comparisons

Mohamad Khaled, Paul Makdissi and Myra Yazbeck

180001: Moral nimby-ism? Understanding societal support for monetary compensation to plasma donors in Canada

Nicola Lacetera and Mario Macis

170011: An Instrumental Variables Approach to Estimating the Effects of Changes in the Heroin Market on Overdose in the US

Daniel Rosenblum, Jay Unick and Daniel Ciccarone

170010: Impact of Individual and Institutional Factors on Wage Rate for Nurses in Canada: Is There a Monopsony Market?

Ruolz Ariste and Ali Bejaoui

170009: Making the Grossman Model Stochastic: Investment in Health as a Stochastic Control Problem

Audrey Laporte and Brian Ferguson

170008: Long-Term Demographic Forecasts and Implications for Health Care Resources and Repurposing

Eric Nauenberg and Carita Ng

170007: War, Migration and the Origins of the Thai Sex Industry

Abel Brodeur, Warn Nuarpear Lekfuangfu and Yanos Zylberberg

170006: The Value of Socialized Medicine: The Impact of Universal Primary Healthcare Provision on Mortality Rates in Turkey

Resul Cesur, Pinar Gunes, Erdal Tekin and Aydogan Ulker

170005: Primary Care Access and Emergency Department Utilization: Theory and Evidence from Canada

Nirav Mehta, Koffi Ahoto Kpelitse, Rose Anne Devlin, Lihua Li and Sisira Sarma

170004: Why Should Rational Smokers Find it Hard to Quit? Introducing Uncertainty into the Rational Addiction Model

Audrey Laporte and Brian Ferguson

170003: Efficiency estimation with panel quantile regression: An application using longitudinal data from nursing homes in Ontario, Canada

Amy Hsu, Adrian Rohit Dass, Whitney Berta, Peter Coyte and Audrey Laporte

170002: Success Breeds Success: Weight Loss Dynamics in the Presence of Short-Term and Long-Term Goals

Kosuke Uetake and Nathan Yang

170001: Inspiration From The "Biggest Loser": Social Interactions In A Weight Loss Program

Kosuke Uetake and Nathan Yang

160011: A Framework for Testing the Equality Between the Health Concentration Curve and the 45-Degree Line

Mohamad Khaled, Paul Makdissi, Rami Tabri and Myra Yazbeck

160009: Income-Related Health Transfers Principles and Orderings of Joint Distributions of Income and Health

Mohamad Khaled, Paul Makdissi and Myra Yazbeck

160008: Some Implications of Dynamic Mis-specification for the Arellano-Bond Estimator

Audrey Laporte, Adrian Rohit Dass and Brian Ferguson

160006: How does Insurance affect the Price of Drugs: A Graphical Analysis

Audrey Laporte and Brian Ferguson

160005: The Use of Panel Quantile Regression for Efficiency Measurement: Insights from Monte Carlo Simulations

Audrey Laporte and Adrian Rohit Dass

160004: On a Possible Problem in the Estimation of Saddle-point Dynamic Economic Models

Audrey Laporte, Adrian Rohit Dass and Brian Ferguson

160003: Are Banks Bad for Boys? Estimating the Effect of Banks on Child Mortality, Education, and Fertility in Rural India

Daniel Rosenblum

160002: Non-Separable Time Preferences and Novelty Consumption: Theory and Evidence from the East German Transition to Capitalism

Davide Dragone and Nicolas Ziebarth

160001: Sleep and Human Capital: Evidence from Daylight Saving Time

Lawrence Jin and Nicolas Ziebarth

150021: Lifecycle Effects of a Recession on Health Behaviors: Boom, Bust, and Recovery in Iceland

Tinna Laufey Asgeirsdottir, Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan and Nancy E. Reichman

150020: Heterogeneity In General Practitioner's Preferences for Quality Improvement Programs: A Choice Experiment And Policy Simulation in France

Mehdi Ammi and Christine Peyron

150019: Long-Term Health Effects of Vietnam War's Herbicide Exposure on the Vietnamese Population

Nikolay Gospodinov and Hai V. Nguyen

150018: Long-Run Health Effects of Sports And Exercise In Canada

Nazmi Sari and Michael Lechner

150017: How To Sell A Condom? The Impact Of Demand Creation Tools On Male And Female Condom Sales In Resource Limited Settings

Fern Terris-Prestholt and Frank Windmeijer

150016: The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes: Testing for Contagious Presenteeism and Shirking Behavior

Stefan Pichler and Nicolas Ziebarth

150015: Behavioral Responses to Taxation: Cigarette Taxes and Food Stamp Take-Up

Kyle Rozema and Nicolas Ziebarth

150014: Modelling Budget Impact: Analytical Techniques When Limits on Cost-Sharing are Imposed on Skewed Health Expenditure Data

Eric Nauenberg and Mary MacLennan

150013: Outcomes As Output: A New Approach to The Production Function for Medical Services

Eric Nauenberg

150012: Investigating Defensive Medicine: The Role of Access

Javier Cano-Urbina and Daniel Montanera

150011: Is the Rational Addiction model inherently impossible to estimate?

Audrey Laporte, Adrian Rohit Dass and Brian Ferguson

150010: Changing the Schedule of Medical Benefits and the Effect on Primary Care Physician Billing: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Alberta

Logan McLeod and Jeffrey A. Johnson

150009: The Impact of Public Smoking Bans on Well-Being Externalities: Evidence From A Natural Experiment

Miaoqing Yang and Eugenio Zucchelli

150008: Coordinating Contracts in Value-Based Healthcare Delivery: Integration and Dynamic Incentives

Tannaz Mahootchi, Ignacio Castillo and Logan McLeod

150007: The Effects of Publicity on Demand: The Case of Anti-cholesterol Drugs

Andrew Ching, Robert Clark, Ignatius Horstmann and Hyunwoo Lim

150006: Quantifying the Impacts of Limited Supply: The Case of Nursing Homes

Andrew Ching, Fumiko Hayashi and Hui Wang

150005: Intellectual Property Protection And Drug Plan Coverage: Evidence From Ontario

Paul Grootendorst, Minsup Shim, Adam Falconi, Tyler Robinson, Ethar Ismail and Joel Lexchin

150003: Income-Related Children's Health Inequality and Health Achievement in China

Lu Chen, Ya Wu and Peter Coyte

150002: Physician Longitudinal Relationship between Participation in Physical Activity and Health

Logan McLeod and Jane Ruseski

150001: Physician Payment Contracts In The Presence Of Moral Hazard And Adverse Selection: Theory And Application To Ontario

Jasmin Kantarevic and Boris Kralj

140014: The Effect of Pension Income on Longevity: Evidence from Confederate Veterans

Mayvis Rebeira

140013: The Determinants of the Propensity to Receive Publicly Funded Home Care Services for the Elderly in Canada

Gustavo Mery, Walter Wodchis and Audrey Laporte

140012: Economic Incentives for Sex-Selective Abortion in India

Daniel Rosenblum

140011: Minimum Wages And Adolescent Alcohol Use: Evidence From A Natural Experiment

Stephenson Strobel, Alex Peden and Evelyn Forget

140010: Theoretical Simulation in Health Economics: An application to Grossman's Model of Investment in Health Capital

Katerina Koka, Audrey Laporte and Brian Ferguson

140009: Patent Expiration and Competition: A dynamic limit price model

Anastasios Papanastasiou

140008: The Impact of Informal Caregiving Intensity on Women's Retirement in the United States

Josephine Jacobs, Courtney Van Houtven, Audrey Laporte and Peter Coyte

140007: A Synthesis of the Grossman and Becker-Murphy Models of Health and Addiction: Theoretical and Empirical Implications

Andrew Jones, Audrey Laporte, Nigel Rice and Eugenio Zucchelli

140006: Retail Tobacco Display Bans

Ian Irvine and Hai Nguyen

140005: Paying For Primary Care: The Factors Associated With Physician Self-Selection Into Payment Models

David Rudoler, Raisa Deber, Janet Barnsley, Richard Glazier and Audrey Laporte

140004: Optimal Co-Payment Policy In Health Care: Competition, Ownership Structure And Quality Provision

Rune Stenbacka and Mihkel Tombak

140003: Should the Grossman model of investment in health capital retain its iconic status?

Audrey Laporte

140002: Changing Healthcare Capital-To-Labor Ratios: Evidence and Implications for Bending the Cost Curve in Canada and Beyond

Eric Nauenberg

140001: Baby Boomer caregivers in the workforce: Do they fare better or worse than their predecessors?

Josephine Jacobs, Courtney Van Houtven, Audrey Laporte and Peter Coyte

130001: The Effect of Leisure-time Physical Activity on Obesity, Diabetes, High BP and Heart Disease among Canadians: Evidence from 2000/01 to 2005/06

Sisira Sarma, Rose Anne Devlin, Jason Gilliland, Karen Campbell and Gregory Zaric

15W001: Changing the Way We Think About Drug Prices: Insights from Economics

Audrey Laporte and Brian Ferguson

14C004: To Vaccinate or to Procrastinate? That is the Prevention Question

Robert Nuscheler and Kerstin Roeder

14C003: Patient Cost-Sharing and Healthcare Utilization in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Tzu-Ting Yang, Hsing-Wen Han and Hsienming Lien

14C002: The Effect of Income on Obesity among Canadian Adults

Koffi-Ahoto Kpelitse, Rose Anne Devlin and Sisira Sarma

14C001: The Effects of Prescription Drug Cost Sharing: Evidence from the Medicare Modernization Act

Douglas Barthold