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Immigration Enforcement and Infant Health 移民执法和婴儿健康
IF 3.7 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2020-12-07 DOI: 10.1086/718510
Catalina Amuedo‐Dorantes, Brandyn F. Churchill, Yang Song
The past two decades were characterized by an unprecedented increase in interior immigration enforcement and heightened stress due to fears of family separation and loss of income among undocumented immigrants. Using vital statistics on infant births from the National Center for Health Statistics for the 2003 through 2016 period and a difference-in-differences design, we compare the health outcomes of infants with likely undocumented mothers before and after the intensification of immigration enforcement within US counties. We find that intensified enforcement, especially during the third trimester, increases the likelihood of low birth weight (<2,500 grams). We also present suggestive evidence that the effect could be driven by heightened stress and fears associated with police-based enforcement during pregnancy. The findings underscore the importance of current immigration policies in shaping the birth outcomes of many American children.
过去二十年的特点是,国内移民执法空前增加,由于担心家庭分离和无证移民失去收入,压力加剧。利用国家卫生统计中心2003年至2016年期间婴儿出生的重要统计数据和差异中的差异设计,我们比较了美国各县加强移民执法之前和之后婴儿与可能无证母亲的健康结果。我们发现,加强执法,特别是在妊娠晚期,增加了低出生体重(< 2500克)的可能性。我们还提出了暗示性的证据,表明这种影响可能是由怀孕期间与警察执法相关的压力和恐惧加剧造成的。这些发现强调了当前移民政策在影响许多美国儿童出生结果方面的重要性。
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引用次数: 4
Reducing Readmissions by Addressing the Social Determinants of Health 通过解决健康的社会决定因素减少再入院人数
IF 3.7 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2020-09-23 DOI: 10.1086/711725
W. Evans, Sarah Kroeger, Elizabeth L Munnich, Grace Ortuzar, Kathryn L. Wagner
Hospital readmissions generate enormous costs and are the subject of increased scrutiny among US lawmakers. The Affordable Care Act created the Community-Based Care Transitions Program (CCTP) to test models for improving care transitions after hospital discharge with the goal of reducing 30-day Medicare hospital readmission rates by 20 percent. Few of these demonstrations showed sustained reductions in readmission rates. In contrast to more traditional medically focused programs, the Chicago Southland Coalition for Transition Care (CSCTC) utilized social workers solely to manage care transitions in an effort to address nonmedical obstacles to recovery. Using a difference-in-differences model and the census of Medicare discharges over the 2010–15 period, we evaluate the impact of this program. We select as a comparison group hospitals in the Chicago area with similar pretreatment trends in readmission rates and total discharges. Treatment-on-treated estimates indicate that the CSCTC program reduced 30-, 60-, and 90-day readmission rates by a statistically significant 14 percent or more of the sample mean, and reduced readmission costs an amount equal to CSCTC program cost. Effects are driven by black and Hispanic patients as well as those with dual eligibility for both Medicare and Medicaid.
再次入院会产生巨大的成本,也是美国立法者越来越多审查的对象。《平价医疗法案》创建了基于社区的医疗过渡计划(CCTP),以测试改善出院后医疗过渡的模型,目标是将30天的医疗保险住院率降低20%。这些示威活动中很少有再次入院率持续下降的。与更传统的以医学为重点的项目相比,芝加哥南部地区过渡护理联盟(CSCTC)仅利用社会工作者来管理护理过渡,以解决康复的非医学障碍。使用差异中的差异模型和2010-2015年期间的医疗保险出院普查,我们评估了该计划的影响。我们选择芝加哥地区在再入院率和总出院率方面具有类似预处理趋势的医院作为比较组。治疗后的治疗估计表明,CSCTC计划将30天、60天和90天的再入院率降低了样本平均值的14%或更多,并将再入院成本降低了相当于CSCTC计划成本的金额。影响是由黑人和西班牙裔患者以及那些既有医疗保险资格又有医疗补助资格的患者造成的。
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引用次数: 11
Children’s Education and Parental Health 儿童教育与父母健康
IF 3.7 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2020-09-22 DOI: 10.1086/711704
Zhiqiang Liu
In this paper we estimate the effect of adult children’s education on parental health using data from the 2011 China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). We find that parents of better-educated children have better health, measured by self-rated health status. Using geographic proximity to school as the instrumental variable, we find that an extra year of children’s education could increase the probability of parental good health status by about 7.7 percentage points. This result is corroborated by the estimates based on an alternative identification strategy. We also find suggestive evidence that smoking behavior, use of preventive care, and especially management of chronic conditions are potential channels through which children’s education can improve parental health.
本文利用2011年中国健康与退休纵向研究(CHARLS)的数据估计成年子女教育对父母健康的影响。我们发现,通过自我评估的健康状况,受教育程度较高的孩子的父母有更好的健康状况。使用地理位置接近学校作为工具变量,我们发现,孩子多受一年教育可以使父母健康状况良好的概率增加约7.7个百分点。基于另一种识别策略的估计证实了这一结果。我们还发现了一些有启发性的证据,表明吸烟行为、预防保健的使用,特别是慢性病的管理,是儿童教育可以改善父母健康的潜在渠道。
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引用次数: 2
Policy-Induced Substitution to Illicit Drugs and Implications for Law Enforcement Activity 政策诱导的非法药物替代及其对执法活动的影响
IF 3.7 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2020-09-21 DOI: 10.1086/716462
Justine Mallatt
US states have implemented many policies to lessen the severity of the opioid crisis. This study investigates prescription drug monitoring programs, the reformulation of OxyContin, and Pill Mill laws on illicit drug possession and sellers. I perform difference-in-differences analyses to study policy-induced substitution to heroin and illicit opioids as measured through rates of heroin and diverted opioid possession and dealers. I find evidence that state policies cause increases in heroin possession and dealers, and that these effects are similar in magnitude to effects spurred by the reformulation of OxyContin.
美国各州实施了许多政策来减轻阿片类药物危机的严重性。本研究调查了处方药监测计划、OxyContin的重新配方以及Pill Mill关于非法药物持有和销售商的法律。我进行了差异分析,以研究政策诱导的海洛因和非法阿片类药物替代,通过海洛因和转移的阿片类物质持有率和经销商来衡量。我发现有证据表明,国家政策导致海洛因持有量和经销商数量增加,这些影响的程度与奥施康定的重新配方所引发的影响相似。
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引用次数: 15
The Impact of the ACA Medicaid Expansion on Disability Program Applications ACA医疗补助扩大对残疾项目申请的影响
IF 3.7 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2020-09-16 DOI: 10.1086/710525
Lucie Schmidt, Lara D. Shore-Sheppard, Tara Watson
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) expanded the availability of public health insurance, decreasing the relative benefit of participating in disability programs but also lowering the cost of exiting the labor market to apply for disability benefits. In this paper, we explore the impact of expanded access to Medicaid through the ACA on applications to the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) programs. Using the fact that the Supreme Court decision of June 2012 made the Medicaid expansion optional for the states, we compare changes in county-level SSI and SSDI caseloads in contiguous county pairs across a state border. We find no significant effects of the Medicaid expansion on applications or awards to either SSI or SSDI, and can reject economically meaningful impacts of Medicaid expansions on applications to disability programs.
《平价医疗法案》(ACA)扩大了公共医疗保险的覆盖面,降低了参加残疾项目的相对好处,但也降低了退出劳动力市场申请残疾福利的成本。在本文中,我们探讨了通过ACA扩大获得医疗补助对申请补充安全收入(SSI)和社会保障残疾保险(SSDI)计划的影响。利用2012年6月最高法院的决定使医疗补助扩大为各州可选的事实,我们比较了跨州边界相邻县对县级SSI和SSDI病例量的变化。我们发现医疗补助扩大对SSI或SSDI的申请或奖励没有显著影响,并且可以拒绝医疗补助扩大对残疾计划申请的经济意义影响。
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引用次数: 0
Learning By Suffering? 在痛苦中学习?
IF 3.7 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2020-09-09 DOI: 10.1086/711564
G. Jin, Thomas G. Koch
An annual flu vaccination is one of the least controversial and most widely recommended preventive health measures. However, only a fraction of those who are suggested to get a flu vaccination actually receive it. We focus on past personal outcomes to understand how individual learning influences patterns over time using medical claims for a 5 percent panel sample of Medicare beneficiaries. We find that individuals learn from personal suffering from the flu and such learning is conditional on whether they had taken a flu vaccination in the same flu season. If they did not get vaccinated for the flu, having the flu later on encourages them to get the flu vaccine the following year. But if they had been vaccinated and still got the flu, their likelihood of getting a flu shot next year is significantly reduced. The outbreak of the H1N1 flu did not break the qualitative pattern of “learning by suffering” but it does change the magnitude of response.
每年接种流感疫苗是最不具争议和最广泛推荐的预防健康措施之一。然而,只有一小部分被建议接种流感疫苗的人真正接种了疫苗。我们关注过去的个人结果,以了解个人学习如何随着时间的推移影响模式,使用5%的医疗保险受益人小组样本的医疗索赔。我们发现,个人从患流感的个人中学习,而这种学习是有条件的,即他们是否在同一流感季节接种了流感疫苗。如果他们没有接种流感疫苗,晚些时候患流感会鼓励他们在第二年接种流感疫苗。但如果他们已经接种了疫苗,但仍然感染了流感,他们明年接种流感疫苗的可能性就会大大降低。甲型H1N1流感的爆发并没有打破“从痛苦中学习”的定性模式,但确实改变了应对的力度。
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引用次数: 5
Are Doctors Better Health Ministers? 医生是更好的卫生部长吗?
IF 3.7 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1086/710331
Adam Pilny, Felix Roesel
Appointing or electing professionals to be public officials is a double-edged sword. Experts can use their rich knowledge to implement reforms, but they can also favor their own profession. In this study, we compare physician-trained state health ministers to ministers of other professions in Germany during 1955–2017. German state health ministers have great power to determine hospital capacities and infrastructure. Our results show that physician-trained health ministers increase hospital capacities, capital, and funding by the statutory health insurance (SHI). This prompts hospitals to hire more physicians, but with little impact on hospital outputs. As a result, total factor productivity (TFP) growth in hospital care slows down substantially under physician-ministers. At the same time, job satisfaction of hospital doctors tends to increase. We conclude that, in particular, the medical profession benefits from medical doctors in office.
任命或选举专业人士担任公职人员是一把双刃剑。专家可以利用他们丰富的知识来实施改革,但他们也可以支持自己的职业。在这项研究中,我们比较了1955年至2017年间德国受过医生培训的州卫生部长与其他职业的部长。德国国家卫生部长拥有决定医院容量和基础设施的巨大权力。我们的研究结果表明,经过医生培训的卫生部长通过法定健康保险(SHI)增加了医院的容量、资本和资金。这促使医院雇佣更多的医生,但对医院产出的影响很小。因此,在医生部长的领导下,医院护理的全要素生产率(TFP)增长大幅放缓。同时,医院医生的工作满意度也呈上升趋势。我们得出的结论是,医学界尤其受益于在职医生。
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引用次数: 6
The Effects of Medicare Payment Changes on Nursing Home Staffing 医疗保险支付变化对养老院人员配置的影响
IF 3.7 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1086/710563
Daifeng He, Peter McHenry, J. Mellor
In light of persistent shortcomings in nursing home care quality and evidence that lower nurse staffing levels could be harmful to residents, we examine whether staffing levels are affected by changes in Medicare reimbursement rates. We exploit a 2006 change in Medicare’s methodology for adjusting provider payments for geographic differences in costs, a change that generated plausibly exogenous variation in nursing facility reimbursement rates. Our method compares facilities with higher and lower shares of Medicare resident days, which were differentially exposed to the payment changes we examine. Using panel data on US nursing homes from 2003 through 2009, we find that higher Medicare payments increased nurse staffing hours per resident day. Additional results suggest that changes in Medicare payments did not affect other measures of quality.
鉴于养老院护理质量的持续缺陷,以及有证据表明护士人员配备水平的降低可能对居民有害,我们研究了人员配备水平是否受到医疗保险报销率变化的影响。我们利用2006年医疗保险方法的变化,根据成本的地理差异调整提供者的支付,这一变化在护理机构报销率上产生了看似外生的变化。我们的方法比较了医疗保险住院天数比例较高和较低的设施,这些设施在我们检查的支付变化中受到的影响不同。使用2003年至2009年美国养老院的面板数据,我们发现,更高的医疗保险支付增加了每位住院护士的工作时间。其他结果表明,医疗保险支付的变化并没有影响其他质量指标。
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引用次数: 3
Exploiting Incomplete Information in Risk Adjustment Using Constrained Regression 利用约束回归挖掘风险调整中的不完全信息
IF 3.7 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1086/710526
R. V. van Kleef, F. Eijkenaar, R. van Vliet, M. Nielen
Health insurance markets with regulated premiums typically include risk adjustment (RA) to mitigate selection incentives. Even the most sophisticated RA models, however, tend to undercompensate (overcompensate) insurers for people in poor (good) health. One reason RA models are imperfect is that some predictors cannot serve as risk adjustor because they are not available for the entire population. This paper applies an indirect method to exploit such predictive information: constrained regression. Our focus is on the Netherlands where morbidity data from general practitioners (GPs) are available for only around 10 percent of the population. We combine this incomplete sample with complete data (N=16.7 million) on spending and risk adjustors. In a first step, we find that GP morbidity data are predictive net of the Dutch RA model. In a second step, we use the GP morbidity data to impose constraints on the coefficients of the RA model. This results in more RA funds being sent to undercompensated groups. Using a split-sample approach, we simulate two constrained regression models and compare the outcomes to those of an unconstrained model. Our findings indicate that constrained regression can be a useful tool to exploit predictive information that is available for only a sample of the population.
保费受监管的健康保险市场通常包括风险调整(RA),以减轻选择激励。然而,即使是最复杂的RA模型,也往往会对健康状况不佳(良好)的人的保险公司进行过度补偿。RA模型不完善的一个原因是,一些预测因子不能作为风险调节器,因为它们不适用于整个人群。本文应用了一种间接方法来利用这种预测信息:约束回归。我们的重点是荷兰,那里只有大约10%的人口可以获得全科医生的发病率数据。我们将这个不完整的样本与支出和风险调整者的完整数据(N=1670万)相结合。首先,我们发现全科医生的发病率数据是荷兰RA模型的预测网络。在第二步中,我们使用GP发病率数据对RA模型的系数施加约束。这导致更多的RA资金被送往补偿不足的群体。使用分裂样本方法,我们模拟了两个约束回归模型,并将结果与无约束模型的结果进行了比较。我们的研究结果表明,约束回归可以成为一种有用的工具,可以利用仅适用于人群样本的预测信息。
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引用次数: 4
The Extent of Externalities from Medicare Payment Policy 医疗保险支付政策的外部性程度
IF 3.7 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2020-08-05 DOI: 10.1086/718769
Alice Chen, Michael R Richards, C. Whaley, Xiaoxi Zhao
Medicare accounts for roughly 20 percent of medical expenditures in the United States and is the dominant payer for many treatments. Consequently, Medicare payment policy may have diffuse consequences. Using a contemporary bundled payment reform (the “CJR” program) and a difference-in-differences research design, we estimate Medicare’s spillover reach. We find that altered treatment decisions for targeted joint replacement procedures are closely, though not perfectly, mirrored between traditional Medicare, Medicare Advantage, and the nonelderly commercially insured populations. Results for untargeted procedures performed by CJR-affected physicians also show suggestive evidence consistent with a secondary spillover effect; however, this behavior change does not extend to less related procedures. Our findings align with the “norms hypothesis” for physician decision making but do not imply rigid and uniform treatment choices. Instead, key decision nodes appear to gain greater salience under Medicare’s new incentive structure, which leads to revised treatment choices for different payer-procedure combinations. Ignoring the breadth of externalities from Medicare policies risks understating their social welfare impact.
医疗保险约占美国医疗支出的20%,是许多治疗的主要支付方。因此,医疗保险支付政策可能会产生分散的后果。使用当代捆绑支付改革(“CJR”计划)和差异研究设计,我们估计了医疗保险的溢出范围。我们发现,有针对性的关节置换手术的治疗决策发生了变化,这在传统的医疗保险、医疗保险优势和非老年商业保险人群之间有着密切的反映,尽管并不完美。受CJR影响的医生进行的非靶向手术的结果也显示了与二次溢出效应一致的提示性证据;然而,这种行为变化并没有扩展到不太相关的过程。我们的研究结果与医生决策的“规范假说”一致,但并不意味着严格和统一的治疗选择。相反,在联邦医疗保险的新激励结构下,关键决策节点似乎变得更加突出,这导致了不同付款人程序组合的治疗选择的修订。忽视医疗保险政策的外部性的广度有可能低估其对社会福利的影响。
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