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Impacts of Physician Payments on Patient Access
Closing the gap in payments between Medicaid and private insurers would reduce disparities in access to health care among adults by more than two-thirds and would eliminate disparities among children, according to research by Diane Alexander and Molly Schnell.
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Effects of Schooling on Costless Health Maintenance
Higher levels of schooling lower the likelihood of obesity among rural Chinese youth, with a large component of the causal effects due to increased information on the benefits of maintaining a healthy weight, a study by Mark R. Rosenzweig and Junsen Zhang finds.
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16 October 2019
The Value of Government Debt
Half of the variation in the market value of government debt to GDP ratio corresponds to varying forecasts of future primary surpluses, and half to varying discount rates, John H. Cochrane calculates. Variation in expected growth rates is unimportant.
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NBER Research Associates Benjamin A. Olken (left) of MIT and Andrew Foster of Brown University delivered master lectures in development at the 2019 NBER Summer Institute. Videos of their full presentations and accompanying slides are available for viewing and downloading on the Development Economics Program page.
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American youth who were coming of driving age during a period when gas prices doubled and lines to fill up were long are more likely to commute by mass transit than either older or younger citizens, according to research featured in the October edition of the free, monthly NBER Digest. Also featured in the current issue are studies exploring discrimination in mortgage lending, analyzing the influence of monetary policy on consumer spending, gauging the impact of Brexit uncertainty on the British economy, evaluating unconventional monetary policies after the Great Recession, and seeking optimal timing for texting parenting tips.
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The Social Security Administration convened its 2019 Retirement and Disability Research Consortium Meeting August 1-2 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. A summary of this year's conference can be found in the latest issue of the Bulletin on Retirement and Disability. Also in this issue of the free Bulletin on Retirement and Disability, are summaries of research on the effects of Medicaid privatization in Texas, how state Medigap requirements affect the health of SSDI beneficiaries, and a panel discussion on the economic determinants of fertility decisions held this past July at the NBER Summer Institute's Social Security meeting.
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In the 11th Annual Martin S. Feldstein Lecture, delivered at the 2019 NBER Summer Institute, Katherine Baicker, the dean and Emmett Dedmon Professor at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy, emphasized the need to define goals clearly and analyze evidence effectively in making health care policy. An edited version of the lecture is featured in the new NBER Reporter. Also in this issue of the free quarterly are reports on how people get and use information, quantitative approaches to violence, synthesizing data on the US economy, and long-term unemployment.
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