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Financial Incentives for Medicaid Beneficiaries With Diabetes: Lessons Learned From HI-PRAISE, an Observational Study and Randomized Controlled Trial
The Hawaii Patient Reward and Incentives to Support Empowerment (HI-PRAISE) project examined the impact of financial incentives on Medicaid beneficiaries with diabetes.
Vog: Using Volcanic Eruptions to Estimate the Health Costs of Particulate
By Tim Halliday, John Lynham, and Aureo de Paula Since its inception, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the United States has proven itself to…
Publication: Health and health inequality during the great recession: Evidence from the PSID
We estimate the impact of the Great Recession of 2007–2009 on health outcomes in the United States. We show that a one percentage point increase…
Tracking wage inequality trends with prices and different trade models: evidence from Mexico
Mexican wage disparity rose following Mexico’s accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade Organization in 1986. Since the mid-1990s, however, wage disparity has been…
Earnings Growth and Movements in Self-Reported Health
We employ data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate income to health causality. To account for unobserved heterogeneity, we focus on the…
An Analysis of Sibling Correlations in Health using Latent Variable Models
We investigate sibling correlations in youth health levels using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. We do so by estimating the covariance structure of a…
Trade, FDI, migration, and the place
Large wage differences between countries (“place premiums”) are well documented. Theory suggests that factor price convergence should follow increased migration, capital flows, and commercial integration. All…
Health and Health Inequality during the Great Recession: Evidence from the PSID
We estimate the impact of the Great Recession of 2007-2009 on health outcomes in the United States. We show that a one percentage point increase…
Using Vog from Kilauea to Estimate the Health Consequences of Particulate and SO2 Pollution
By Tim Halliday, John Lynham and Aureo de Paula Kīlauea volcano is the largest stationary source of sulfur dioxide (SO₂) pollution in the United States of…