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PUBLIC VS. PRIVATE PROVISION OF CHARITY CARE? EVIDENCE FROM THE EXPIRATION OF HILL-BURTON REQUIREMENTS IN FLORIDA
PUBLIC VS. PRIVATE PROVISION OF CHARITY CARE EVIDENCE THE EXPIRATION HILL-BURTON REQUIREMENTS FLORIDA
2014/3/18
This paper explores the consequences of the expiration of charity care requirements imposed on private hospitals by the Hill-Burton Act. We examine delivery care and the health of newborns using the ...
Pollution, Health, and Avoidance Behavior: Evidence from the Ports of Los Angeles
Pollution Health Avoidance Behavior Evidence Ports Los Angeles
2016/3/8
A pervasive problem in estimating the costs of pollution is that optimizing individuals may compensate for increases in pollution by reducing their exposure, resulting in estimates that understate the...
Is Marriage Always Good for Children?: Evidence from Families Affected by Incarceration
Marriage Always Good Children Evidence Families Affected Incarceration
2016/3/8
Never-married motherhood is associated with worse educational outcomes for children. But this association may reflect other factors that also determine family structure, rather than causal effects. We...
Education, Information, and Smoking Decisions: Evidence from Smoking Histories in the United States, 1940–2000
Education Information Smoking Decisions: Smoking Histories States
2016/3/8
This paper tests the hypothesis that education improves health and increases life expectancy. The analysis of smoking histories shows that after 1950, when information about the dangers of tobacco sta...
Does Combat Exposure Make You a More Violent or Criminal Person?: Evidence from the Vietnam Draft
Combat Exposure Violent Criminal Person Vietnam Draft
2016/3/7
This study exploits the differential effects of the Vietnam War across birth cohorts to measure the effects of combat exposure on later violence and crime. Combat exposure and violent acts are measure...
Evidence from Maternity Leave Expansions of the Impact of Maternal Care on Early Child Development
Maternity Leave Expansions Maternal Care Early Child Development
2016/3/7
We study the impact of maternal care on early child development using an expansion in Canadian maternity leave entitlements. Following the leave expansion, mothers who took leave spent 48–58 percent m...
Air Quality and Early-Life Mortality: Evidence from Indonesia’s Wildfires
Air Quality Early-Life Mortality Indonesia’s Wildfires
2016/3/7
Smoke from massive wildfires blanketed Indonesia in late 1997. This paper examines the impact that this air pollution (particulate matter) had on fetal, infant, and child mortality. Exploiting the sha...
Dowry and Intrahousehold Bargaining: Evidence from China
Dowry Intrahousehold Bargaining China
2016/3/7
This paper analyzes the relationship between a woman’s intrahousehold bargaining position and her welfare within marriage using household data from rural China. Simultaneity problems are overcome by u...
The Future of Evidence-Based Social Work: An Optimistic View?
Future Evidence-Based Social Work
2008/10/13
The abbreviated article contains a brief overview of the contemporary state of evidence-based social work (EBSW) and projections of its likely future. The forecast is based upon a review and analysis ...
Does Unemployment Increase Crime?: Evidence from U.S. Data 1974–2000
Unemployment Increase Crime Evidence
2016/3/7
OLS may understate the effect of unemployment on crime because of the endogeneity problem (Raphael and Winter-Ember 2001). In this paper, we use changes in the real exchange rate, state manufacturing ...
Does Managed Care Hurt Health? Evidence from Medicaid Mothers
Managed Care Hurt Health Evidence Medicaid Mothers
2014/3/18
Most Americans are now in some form of managed care plan which restricts access to services in order to reduce costs. It is difficult to determine whether these restrictions affect health because indi...
The Dynamics of Criminal Behavior: Evidence from Weather Shocks
Dynamics Criminal Behavior Evidence Weather Shocks
2016/3/7
While the persistence of criminal activity is well documented, this may be due to persistence in the unobserved determinants of crime. There are good reasons to believe, however, that there may actual...
Income and the Use of Prescription Drugs by the Elderly: Evidence from the Notch Cohorts
Income Prescription Drugs Elderly Evidence Notch Cohorts
2016/3/7
We use exogenous variation in Social Security payments created by the Social Security benefits notch to estimate how retirees’ use of prescription medications responds to changes in their incomes. Usi...