Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers

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15/13: Missing work is a pain: the effect of Cox-2 inhibitors on sickness absence and disability pension receipt

Bütikofer, A. and Meghan Skira

15/12: Efficiency of health investment: education or intelligence?

Govert Bijwaard and H. van Kippersluis

15/11: Folic acid advisories, a public health challenge?

Daniel Herrera-Araujo

15/10: Getting a healthy start: The effectiveness of targeted benefits for improving dietary choices

Rachel Griffith, Stephanie von Hinke and Sarah Smith

15/09: Late-Life Health Effects of Teenage Motherhood

Viola Angelini and Jochen Mierau

15/08: The impact of a wage increase on mental health: Evidence from the UK minimum wage

C. Kronenberg, R. Jacobs and Eugenio Zucchelli

15/07: Intelligence and the Mortality Difference by Education: Selection or mediation?

Govert Bijwaard and Andrew Jones

15/06: Formal volunteering and self-perceived health. Causal evidence from the Uk-SILC

Damiano Fiorillo and Nunzia Nappo

15/05: Vertical Transmission of Overweight: Evidence from English Adoptees

Joan Costa-Font, M. Jofre-Bonet and J. Le Grand

15/04: Anthropometric Dividends of Czechoslovakia's Break Up

J. Costa-Font and L. Kossarova

15/03: The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes: A Method to Test for Contagious Presenteeism and Shirking Behavior

Stefan Pichler and Nicolas Ziebarth

15/02: How Health Plan Enrollees Value Prices Relative to Supplemental Benefits and Service Quality

Bunnings, C,;, Hendrik Schmitz, Harald Tauchmann and Nicolas Ziebarth

15/01: The Relationship between Forgone Health Care and High School Dropout: Evidence from US Adolescents

Giuseppe Migali and Eugenio Zucchelli

14/28: Social interactions in inappropriate behavior for childbirth services: Theory and evidence from the Italian hospital sector

Calogero Guccio and Domenico Lisi

14/27: What drives the association between health and portfolio choice?

C. Kronenberg, H. van Kippersluis and K.I.M. Rohde

14/26: Going Beyond the Mean in Healthcare Cost Regressions: a Comparison of Methods for Estimating the Full Conditional Distribution

Andrew Jones, James Lomas and Nigel Rice

14/25: Learning, Hygiene, and Traditional Medicine

Daniel Bennett, Asjad Naqvi and W-P. Schmidt

14/24: Do Payment Disclosure Laws Affect Industry-Physician Relationships?

Daniel Chen, V. Levonyan, S.E. Reinhart and G. Taksler

14/23: Does Experience Rating Improve Obstetric Practices? Evidence From Geographical Discontinuities*

Sofia Amaral-Garcia, P. Bertoli and V. Grembi

14/22: Health Care Demand in the Presence of Discrete Price Changes

M. Gerfin, Boris Kaiser and Christian Schmid

14/21: Does quality affect patients’ choice of doctor? Evidence from the UK

Rita Santos, Hugh Gravelle and Carol Propper

14/20: Are physician fees responsive to competition?

Choné, P., Elise Coudin and A. Pla

14/19: Health econometric evaluation of the effects of a continuous treatment: a machine learning approach

Noemi Kreif, R. Grieve, Díaz, I. and D. Harrison

14/18: A matter of life and death? Hospital distance and quality of care: Evidence from emergency room closures and myocardial infarctions*

Daniel Avdic

14/17: Effects of geographical accessibility on the use of outpatient care services: quasi-experimental evidence from administrative panel data

Péter Elek, Balázs Váradi and Márton Varga

14/16: “They do know what they are doing... at least most of them.†Asymmetric Information in the (private) Disability Insurance*

M. Spindler

14/15: Private information in life insurance, annuity and health insurance markets

Amelie Wuppermann

14/14: Long-term Care Insurance and Carers' Labor Supply – A Structural Model

Johannes Geyer and Thorben Korfhage

14/13: Life cycle responses to health insurance status

F. Pelgrin and Pascal St-Amour

14/12: Modelling nonlinearities and reference-dependence in general practitioners’ income preferences

J.H. Holte, Peter Sivey, B. Abelsen and J.A. Olsen

14/11: Does the letter matter (and for everyone)? Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of home invitation on mammography uptake

Vincenzo Carrieri and A. Wuebker

14/10: Understanding the effect of retirement on health using Regression Discontinuity Design

Peter Eibich

14/09: The Welfare Impact of Parallel Imports: A Structural Approach Applied to the German Market for Oral Anti-diabetics

Tomaso Duso, Annika Herr and Moritz Suppliet

14/08: Physician induced demand for C-sections: does the convenience incentive matter?

Mélanie Lefèvre

14/07: 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

14/06: Social Interactions and Malaria Preventive Behaviors in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bénédicte Apouey and G. Picone

14/05: Formal and informal volunteering and health across European countries

Damiano Fiorillo and Nunzia Nappo

14/04: Attrition Bias in Panel Data: A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing? A Case Study Based on the MABEL Survey

Terence Cheng and Pravin Trivedi

14/03: Testing exogeneity of multinomial regressors in count data models: does two stage residual inclusion work?

Andrea Geraci, Daniele Fabbri and Chiara Monfardini

14/02: Inequity in long-term care use and unmet need: two sides of the same coin

Pilar Garcia-Gomez, Cristina Hernández-Quevedo, D. Jimenez-Rubio and Juan Oliva

14/01: Alcohol Exposure In Utero and Child Academic Achievement

Stephanie von Hinke, G. L. Wehby, S. Lewis and L. Zuccolo

13/35: The Decline in BMI among Japanese Women after WWII

Shiko Maruyama and S. Nakamura

13/34: The short-term population health effects of weather and pollution: implications of climate change

Nicolas Ziebarth, Maike Schmitt and Martin Karlsson

13/33: Make time for physical activity or you may spend more time sick!

Grace Lordan and D. Pakrashi

13/32: Workers' health and social relations in Italy

Damiano Fiorillo

13/31: An econometric analysis of self-assessed health: what does it mean and what is it hiding?

N. Au and David Johnston

13/30: A quasi-Monte Carlo comparison of developments in parametric and semi-parametric regression methods for heavy tailed and non-normal data: with an application to healthcare costs

Andrew Jones, James Lomas, P. Moore and Nigel Rice

13/29: Equalising Opportunities in Health Through Educational Policy

Andrew Jones, John Roemer and Pedro Rosa Dias

13/28: Natural Disaster, Policy Action, and Mental Well Being: The Case of Fukushima

Jan Goebel, Christian Krekel, Tim Tiefenbach and Nicolas Ziebarth

13/27: Born to Win? The Role of Circumstances and Luck in Early Childhood Health Inequalities

David Madden