Population Health and Disparities
Our work in Population Health and Disparities
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Dynamic Treatment Effects
This paper developed robust models for estimating and interpreting treatment effects arising from both ordered and unordered multi-stage decision problems.
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Intergenerational Long-Term Effects of Preschool-Structural Estimates from a Discrete Dynamic Programming Model
This study found that preschool investment significantly boosts cognitive and non-cognitive skills, which enhance earnings and school outcomes, and that a tax-financed free preschool program for the children of poor socioeconomic status generates positive net gains to the society in terms of average earnings, higher intergenerational earnings mobility, and schooling mobility.
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Putting People Behind Bars Has Hidden Costs for Society
Robynn Cox studies historical disparities related to the prison system and calculates the external costs of incarceration.
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A Medication Lock-In Program May Not Be the Easy Solution to the Opioid Abuse Epidemic That Congress Thinks It Is
Before anyone can propose effective solutions to this problem, we need to accurately quantify prescription opioid use and abuse in Medicare and continue to analyze the trends in opioid prescriptions as well as the characteristics of utilization.
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Loneliness, Eudaimonia, and the Human Conserved Transcriptional Response to Adversity.
This study notes that eudaimonic well-being may have the potential to compensate for the adverse impact of loneliness on conserved transcriptional response to adversity gene expression, and suggests a novel approach to targeting the health risks associated with social isolation by promoting purpose and meaning in life.
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Association between Use of Warfarin with Common Sulfonylureas and Serious Hypoglycemic Events: Retrospective Cohort Analysis
This study considered whether warfarin use is associated with an increased risk of serious hypoglycemic events among older people treated with the sulfonylureas glipizide and glimepiride, and found that, in quarters with glipizide/glimepiride use, hospital admissions or emergency department visits for hypoglycemia were more common in person quarters with concurrent warfarin use compared with quarters without warfarin use.
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Alleviating Poverty for Older Adults: Findings from a Noncontributory Pension Program in Mexico
In this study in of the designing and implementing a non-contributory pension program in Yucatan, Mexico, the researchers found that such a program would improve the well-being of elderly, with a monthly program appearing to be most effective.
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The Impact of Insurance on HIV Testing
In this investigation of the effects of health insurance on HIV testing rates among the US general population, the researchers found that insurance coverage increases HIV testing rates and increases HIV testing rates among the high-risk population, and that the effects of insurance coverage on HIV testing for high-risk populations increased over time.
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Financial Education Interventions Targeting Immigrants and Children of Immigrants: Results from a Randomized C
Researchers document that immigrants in the United States differ from natives in several aspects relevant for their financial decision making.
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Social Security Contributions and Return Migration among Older Male Mexican Immigrants
In this study, researchers analyzed the socioeconomic and labor characteristics, health, migration histories, and transitions to retirement of male Mexican return migrants who contributed to the US Social Security system, and found that 32 percent of male return migrants reported having contributed to Social Security but only 5 percent of those who contributed received or expected to receive benefits.
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