Vignettes and Self-Reports of Work Disability in the United States and the Netherlands

By Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, and Arthur van Soest

American Economic Review, March 2007

In contrast to the believed similarity in their health outcomes, workers in different Western countries report very different rates of work disability. Using new data from the United States and the Netherlands, we offer a partial resolution to this parado...

Canada: Life beyond the Looking Glass

[Symposium: The North American Economy]

By John F. Helliwell

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2001

Canada's population, a tenth that of the United States, is perched close to the U.S. northern border, tightly but asymmetrically tied to U.S. information networks. However, trade, capital and population mobility remains an order of magnitude tighter among...

The Effect of Education on Adult Mortality and Health: Evidence from Britain

By Damon Clark and Heather Royer

American Economic Review, October 2013

There is a strong, positive, and well-documented correlation between education and health outcomes. In this paper, we attempt to understand to what extent this relationship is causal. Our approach exploits two changes to British compulsory schooling la...

Competing in Advanced Manufacturing: The Need for Improved Growth Models and Policies

[Symposium: Manufacturing]

By Gregory Tassey

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2014

The United States has underinvested for several decades in a set of productivity-enhancing assets necessary for the long-term health of its manufacturing sector. Conventional characterizations of the process of bringing new advanced manufacturing produc...

An Individual Health Plan Exchange: Which Employees Would Benefit and Why?

By Leemore Dafny, Katherine Ho, and Mauricio Varela

American Economic Review, May 2010

The Health Returns of Education Policies from Preschool to High School and Beyond

By Rucker C. Johnson

American Economic Review, May 2010

The Great Equalizer: Health Care Access and Infant Mortality in Thailand

By Jonathan Gruber, Nathaniel Hendren, and Robert M. Townsend

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2014

This paper analyzes Thailand's 2001 healthcare reform, "30 Baht." The program increased funding available to hospitals to care for the poor and reduced copays to 30 Baht (~$0.75). Our estimates suggest the supply-side funding of the program increased h...

Malaria Eradication in the Americas: A Retrospective Analysis of Childhood Exposure

By Hoyt Bleakley

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2010

This study uses the malaria-eradication campaigns in the United States (circa 1920) and in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico (circa 1955) to measure how much childhood exposure to malaria depresses labor productivity. The campaigns began because of advances...

Quality Disclosure and Certification: Theory and Practice

By David Dranove and Ginger Zhe Jin

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2010

This essay reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on quality disclosure and certification. After comparing quality disclosure with other quality assurance mechanisms and describing a brief history of quality disclosure, we address two sets of th...

Lucy Xiaolu Wang on how health IT reduces opioid-related deaths

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How can prescription monitoring programs be more effective?

Richard Steckel on economic growth and diabetes

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Can rapid economic growth cause diabetes?

The Consequences of Health Care Privatization: Evidence from Medicare Advantage Exits

By Mark Duggan, Jonathan Gruber, and Boris Vabson

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2018

There is considerable controversy over the use of private insurers to deliver public health insurance benefits. We investigate the consequences of patients enrolling in Medicare Advantage (MA), privately managed care organizations that compete with the tr...

Home security

[Research Highlight]

January 25, 2018

How much did unemployment benefits stabilize the housing market during the Great Recession?

The Impact of AIDS Treatment on Savings and Human Capital Investment in Malawi

By Victoria Baranov and Hans-Peter Kohler

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2018

Antiretroviral therapy (ART), a treatment for AIDS, is rapidly increasing life expectancy throughout sub-Saharan African countries affected by the AIDS epidemic. This change in life expectancy has potentially profound influences on life-cycle decisions. A...

When less is more

[Research Highlight]

February 06, 2018

Why would a five-star restaurant not want to disclose a positive inspection score?

"Sand castles before the tide"

[Research Highlight]

February 16, 2018

How can America's most expensive cities keep themselves affordable?

Family Ruptures, Stress, and the Mental Health of the Next Generation: Comment

By Brett Matsumoto

American Economic Review, April 2018

The empirical methodology used by Persson and Rossin-Slater (2018) to estimate the causal effect of in utero exposure to stress contains a potentially significant flaw. They define the control group in a way that may bias their causal estimates and can le...

What's best for the baby

[Research Highlight]

March 22, 2018

The AEA interviews Maya Rossin-Slater and Petra Persson about the long-term impact of maternal stress during pregnancy.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution features AER paper on maternal stress

[News]

April 09, 2018

Paper from Stanford University researchers says in utero stress impacts mental health of children later in life.

This land is my land

[Research Highlight]

March 05, 2018

Land rights were the key to economic development in 19th century Russia.