Health Economics (Early View): Beland, Huh, & Kim examine the relationship between opioid marketing and traffic deaths. States with more Oxycontin marketing (no triplicate laws) had 2.4 times more traffic fatalities from 2011-2019, esp for ages 25-44.

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Health Economics (Early View): On a sad day, with the announcement of Danny Kahneman's passing, Balsa, Noboa, and Triunfo are out with a new paper demonstrating that nudges can encourage healthier food choices - though it's not always veg. Check it out:

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Health Economics (Early View): Gutierrez & Boss have a new paper examining experimental evidence on consumers' choice of health insurance. Bottom line: interventions that reduce informational frictions can have real benefits when designed correctly.

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The journal Health Affairs has posted several openings for summer internships for students interested in health policy. If you (or your students) are interested see:

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Health Economics (Early View): Public health management of COVID became political. Did that change behaviors? Sternberg and colleagues assess the impact of social preferences on the degree of compliance with distancing requirements in public and private.

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Health Economics (Early View): And now for something completely different!

Imagine you're an autonomous car. You have to choose to smash a human or let your human passengers come to harm. Don't know what to do? That's OK, Habla et al. have your back!

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📖 #ReferenciasAES

Lebenbaum, M., de Oliveira, C., Gagnon, F., & Laporte, A. (2024)
'Child health and its effect on adult social capital accumulation'

#HealthEconomics HEC Editors
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Health Economics (Early View): Type II diabetes is a serious health condition with increasing prevalence. In the silver linings department, Llewellyn Thomas and Mentzakis find causal effects of a diagnosis on exercise and spillovers to family members. 👇

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Health Economics (Early View): Early childhood health shocks have long term effects on health into adulthood. In a sibling study Lebenbaum and colleagues find that negative health shocks interact with reduced social capital to have persistent impact.

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Health Economics (Early View): It may be hard to detect in more developed economies, but in places with traditionally poor access to health insurance the benefits are clear. Check out Aiyar and Sundar on the mortality benefits of HI access here. 👇

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Health Economics (Early View): What does choice of provider do for system efficiency and patient outcome? Ge et al. study the effect of expanding access to private care in Norway. Competition with private hospitals didn't improve wait time or access. 👇

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DEADLINE APPROACHING! The deadline to nominate someone for the IHEA Student Paper Prize is a week from today on January 18. This is a wonderful way to recognize the next generation of scholars, so please consider making a nomination.

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Health Economics 33(2): Learn all about conditional cash transfers and reproductive choices, gun buy-backs and gun violence in Australia, how naturalization affects immigrant health, and how lack of insurance affects children in China. Check it out 👇

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O'Halloran, J., Oxholm, A. S., Pedersen, L. B., & Gyrd-Hansen, D. (2023).
📍Going the extra mile? General practitioners' upcoding of fees for home visits.
Health economics, 10.1002/hec.4777.
HEC Editors
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Health Economics (Early View): Staiger, Helfer, and Van Parys study how improved access to Medicaid through the ACA expansion differentially impacted disability take-up by race and ethnicity. The effects are heterogeneous, but may reduce job lock on net.

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Health Economics (Early View): Yacouba Kassouri is out today in HEc with a fascinating paper on the effects of capital flight on health outcomes in Africa. Government spending seems the main route through which capital flight influences health outcomes.

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Health Economics 33(1): Read about the impact of terrorism on child mortality, cannabis availability and adolescent use in schools, the relationship between Rx insurance and inappropriate prescribing, and much more. Hit the link! 👇

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Health Economics (Early View): Joyce, Zhou, and Kaestner are out today examining the important question of whether the most commonly used utilization management tool (copayments) helped at all to curb opioid use in Medicare. They find policy failures. 👇

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Health Economics (Early View): Nicolás Libuy and colleagues have a fascinating study examining the impact of proximity to fast food and youth weight gain. (No, it's not in an American context!) Parental education is a key protective factor. Check it out:

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DEADLINE NEAR: Health Economics is seeking a new Editor-in-Chief to work with an enthusiastic team of Co-Editors, Associate Editors and the Wiley publishing team to direct one of the top journals in the field.  Applications due Friday, 1 December 2023 to onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/asse…