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Quality of Sleep Is More Important Than Quantity
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Bulletin on Health
Medicare Eligibility Reduces Cancer Mortality for Women
The spring issue of the Bulletin on Health features a study examining the impact of Medicare eligibility at age 65 on cancer detection and outcomes. The researchers show that cancer detection shifts sharply upward at the age of Medicare eligibility, while cancer mortality shifts downward with Medicare eligibility. The effects are concentrated among women, especially among racial minorities. Also featured in this issue of the free Bulletin on Health are: a study of how a diabetes diagnosis affects subsequent health care and health outcomes, a study of how an informational letter about the tax penalty for lacking health insurance affected insurance coverage and mortality, and a profile of NBER research associate Adriana Lleras-Muney.
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23 April 2020
Medicaid and Children with Special Health Care Needs
Raising the Medicaid primary care fee to within 90 percent of the Medicare level increases the likelihood that publicly insured children with special health care needs will have usual care in a doctor’s office by about 15 percent and is associated with improved access to specialty care, Pinka Chatterji, Sandra Decker, and Jason U. Huh calculate.
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22 April 2020
Analyzing Police Use of Force by Race
Data from two cities suggest that white officers use force 60 percent more than black officers, use gun force twice as often, and are five times as likely as black officers to use gun force in predominantly black neighborhoods, Mark Hoekstra and CarlyWill Sloan find.
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21 April 2020
Private School Choice, Public School Students
Massive expansion of Florida’s private school choice program produced modestly higher standardized test scores and lower absenteeism and suspension rates for students attending public schools that had a larger initial degree of private school options, David N. Figlio, Cassandra M.D. Hart, and Krzysztof Karbownik find.
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Public Economics Program Report Focuses
on Take-Up and Impacts of Government Interventions
Public economics is the study of government intervention in the market economy, designed to move outcomes away from the market equilibrium. In the new issue of the NBER Reporter, the directors of the NBER’s Public Economics Program describe efforts by the program’s affiliated researchers to identify factors that determine take-up of government initiatives and the impacts of those initiatives on behavior and economic outcomes. Recent work has uncovered evidence of the importance of barriers to take-up in general and how those barriers may vary. Also in this edition of the free, quarterly Reporter, NBER researchers write about their investigations of the profound effects of rare events like pandemics, the impact of land systems and misallocation on agricultural productivity, the role of the firm in explaining the structure and evolution of wages and worker risk, and the benefits of rehabilitative incarceration of criminals.
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How the Coronavirus Might Reduce Income Inequality
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Bulletin on Retirement and Disability
What Drives Prescription Opioid Abuse?
While the magnitude of the US opioid crisis is fairly well understood, its causes are less well established. This issue is the topic of study of a paper summarized in the current issue of the free Bulletin on Retirement and Disability. The research finds that opioid abuse jumps shortly after a move and remains at the new higher level for up to five years after the move, suggesting that place-specific factors may explain about one-fourth of opioid abuse. Also featured in this issue: a summary of research on how perception of pain differs by education level, an exploration of trends in work and disability application among people with mental illness, and a joint Q&A; with NBER research associates Richard Frank and Ellen Meara, both of Harvard University.
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