CCHE Working Papers
CCHE’s Working Paper Series features the unpublished research of Centre Associates and Fellows for the purpose of discussion and feedback. The series includes papers concerned with both the application and development of theoretical and econometric frameworks to a range of health related questions.
The Impact of National Income and Vaccine Hesitancy on Country-Level COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake
Javad Moradpour, Ali Shajarizadeh, Jasmine Carter, Ayman Chit, Paul Grootendorst
Global Drug Diffusion and Innovation with the Medicines Patent Pool
Lucy Xiaolu Wang
U.S. State Approaches to Cannabis Licensing
Lucy Xiaolu Wang, Nicholas J. Wilson
Displacement and Mortality After a Disaster: Deaths of Puerto Ricans in the United States Post-Hurricane Maria
Mario Marazzi, Boriana Miloucheva, Gustavo J. Bobonis
Consideration of Trade-offs Regarding COVID-19 Containment Measures in the United States: Implications for Canada
Mayvis Rebeira, Eric Nauenberg
Influenza Pandemics and Macroeconomic Fluctuations in Recent Economic History
Fraser Summerfield, Livio Di Matteo
Heterogeneity in the Support for Mandatory Masks Unveiled
Muhammad Maaz, Anastasios Papanastasiou, Bradley J. Ruffle, Angela L. Zheng
Compliance with Social Distancing: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Ontario during COVID-19
Anastasios Papanastasiou, Bradley J. Ruffle, Angela L. Zheng
An Empirical Examination of the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board Price Control Amendments on Drug Launches in Canada
Oliver Spicer, Paul Grootendorst
Impact of Quality-Based Procedures on Orthopedic Care Quantity and Quality in Ontario Hospitals
Alex Proshin, Adrian Rohit Dass, Lise Rochaix, Audrey Laporte
ADHD Misidentification in School: Causes and Mitigators
Jill Furzer, Elizabeth Dhuey, Audrey Laporte
Publication Bias and Editorial Statement on Negative Findings
Cristina Blanco-Perez, Abel Brodeur
On the importance of the upside down test in absolute socioeconomic health inequality comparisons
Mohamad A. Khaled, Paul Makdissi, Myra Yazbeck
Moral nimby-ism? Understanding societal support for monetary compensation to plasma donors in Canada
Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis
An Instrumental Variables Approach to Estimating the Effects of Changes in the Heroin Market on Overdose in the US
Daniel Rosenblum, Jay Unick, Daniel Ciccarone
Making the Grossman Model Stochastic: Investment in Health as a Stochastic Control Problem
Audrey Laporte, Brian Ferguson
Long-Term Demographic Forecasts and Implications for Health Care Resources and Repurposing
Eric Nauenberg, Carita Ng
War, Migration and the Origins of the Thai Sex Industry
Abel Brodeur, Warn N. Lekfuangfu, Yanos Zylberberg
The Value of Socialized Medicine: The Impact of Universal Primary Healthcare Provision on Mortality Rates in Turkey
Resul Cesur, Pinar Mine Güneş, Erdal Tekin, Aydogan Ulker
Primary Care Access and Emergency Department Utilization: Theory and Evidence from Canada
Nirav Mehta, Koffi Ahoto Kpelitse, Rose Anne Devlin, Lihua Li, Sisira Sarma
Why Should Rational Smokers Find it Hard to Quit? Introducing Uncertainty into the Rational Addiction Model
Audrey Laporte, Brian Ferguson
Efficiency estimation with panel quantile regression: An application using longitudinal data from nursing homes in Ontario, Canada
Amy Hsu, Adrian Rohit Dass, Whitney Berta, Peter Coyte, Audrey Laporte
Success Breeds Success: Weight Loss Dynamics in the Presence of Short-Term and Long-Term Goals
Kosuke Uetake, Nathan Yang
Inspiration From The “Biggest Loser”: Social Interactions In A Weight Loss Program
Kosuke Uetake, Nathan Yang
A Framework for Testing the Equality Between the Health Concentration Curve and the 45-Degree Line
Mohamed Khaled, Paul Makdissi, Rami Tabri, Myra Yazbeck
Income-Related Health Transfers Principles and Orderings of Joint Distributions of Income and Health
Mohamed Khaled, Paul Makdissi, Myra Yazbeck
Is The Rational Addiction Model Inherently Impossible to Estimate?
Audrey Laporte, Adrian Rohit Dass, Brian S. Ferguson
Some Implications of Dynamic Mis-specification for the Arellano-Bond Estimator
Audrey Laporte, Adrian Rohit Dass, Brian S. Ferguson
Paying for primary care: The relationship between payment for primary care physicians and selection of patients based on case-mix
David Rudoler, Rasia B. Deber, Adrian Rohit Dass, Janet Barnsley, Richard H. Glazier, Audrey Laporte
How does Insurance affect the Price of Drugs: A Graphical Analysis
Audrey Laporte, Brian Ferguson
The Use of Panel Quantile Regression for Efficiency Measurement: Insights from Monte Carlo Simulations
Audrey Laporte, Adrian Rohit Dass
On a Possible Problem in the Estimation of Saddle-point Dynamic Economic Models
Audrey Laporte, Adrian Rohit Dass, Brian S. Ferguson
Non-Separable Time Preferences and Novelty Consumption: Theory and Evidence from the East German Transition to Capitalism
Davide Dragone, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Sleep and Human Capital: Evidence from Daylight Saving Time
Lawrence Jin, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Lifecycle Effects of a Recession on Health Behaviors: Boom, Bust, and Recovery in Iceland
Tinna Laufey Àsgeirsdòttir, Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan, Nancy E. Reichman
Long-Term Health Effects of Vietnam War’s Herbicide Exposure on the Vietnamese Population
Nikolay Gospodinov, Hai V. Nguyen
Long-Run Health Effects of Sports And Exercise In Canada
Nazmi Sari, Michael Lechner
Changing the Way We Think About Drug Prices: Insights from Economics
Audrey Laporte, Brian S. Ferguson
How To Sell A Condom? The Impact Of Demand Creation Tools On Male And Female Condom Sales In Resource Limited Settings
Fern Terris-Prestholt, Frank Windmeijer
The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes: Testing for Contagious Presenteeism and Shirking Behavior
Stefan Pichler, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Behavioral Responses to Taxation: Cigarette Taxes and Food Stamp Take-Up
Kyle Rozema, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Investigating Defensive Medicine: The Role of Access
Javier Cano-Urbina, Daniel Montanera
Modelling Budget Impact: Analytical Techniques When Limits on Cost-Sharing are Imposed on Skewed Health Expenditure Data
Eric Nauenberg, Mary MacLennan
Changing the Schedule of Medical Benefits and the Effect on Primary Care Physician Billing: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Alberta
Logan McLeod, Jeffrey A. Johnson
The Impact of Public Smoking Bans on Well-Being Externalities: Evidence From A Natural Experiment
Miaoqing Yang, Eugenio Zucchelli
Coordinating Contracts in Value-Based Healthcare Delivery: Integration and Dynamic Incentives
Tannaz Mahootchi, Ignacio Castillo, Logan McLeod
The Effects of Publicity on Demand: The Case of Anti-cholesterol Drugs
Andrew T. Ching, Robert Clark, Ignatius Horstmann, Hyunwoo Lim
Quantifying the Impacts of Limited Supply: The Case of Nursing Homes
Andrew T. Ching, Fumiko Hayashi, Hui Wang
Intellectual Property Protection and Drug Plan Coverage: Evidence From Ontario
Paul Grootendorst, Minsup Shim, Adam Falconi, Tyler Robinson, Ethar Ismail, Joel Lexchin
Does increased medication use among seniors increase risk of hospitalization and emergency department visits?
Sara Allin, David Rudoler, Audrey Laporte
Income-Related Children’s Health Inequality and Health Achievement in China
Lu Chen, Ya Wu, Peter C. Coyte
Longitudinal Relationship between Participation in Physical Activity and Health
Logan McLeod, Jane E. Ruseski
Physician Payment Contracts In The Presence Of Moral Hazard And Adverse Selection: Theory And Application To Ontario
Jasmin Kantarevic, Boris Kralj
The Determinants of the Propensity to Receive Publicly Funded Home Care Services for the Elderly in Canada
Gustavo Mery, Walter P. Wodchis, Audrey Laporte
To Vaccinate or to Procrastinate? That is the Prevention Question
Robert Nuscheler, Kerstin Roeder
Economic Incentives for Sex-Selective Abortion in India
Daniel Rosenblum
Patient Cost-Sharing and Healthcare Utilization in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Tzu-Ting Yang, Hsing-Wen Han, Hsien-Ming Lien
The Effect of Income on Obesity among Canadian Adults
Koffi-Ahoto Kpelitse, Rose Anne Devlin, Sisira Sarma
Minimum Wages And Adolescent Alcohol Use: Evidence From A Natural Experiment
Stephenson Strobel, Alex Peden, Evelyn Forget
Theoretical Simulation in Health Economics: An application to Grossman’s Model of Investment in Health Capital
Katerina Koka, Audrey Laporte, Brian Ferguson
Patent Expiration and Competition: A dynamic limit price model
Anastasios I. Papanastasiou
The Impact of Informal Caregiving Intensity on Women’s Retirement in the United States
Josephine C. Jacobs, Courtney H. Van Houtven, Audrey Laporte, Peter C. Coyte
A Synthesis of the Grossman and Becker-Murphy Models of Health and Addiction: Theoretical and Empirical Implications
Andrew M. Jones, Audrey Laporte, Nigel Rice, Eugenio Zucchelli
Retail Tobacco Display Bans
Ian Irvine, Hai V. Nguyen
Paying For Primary Care: The Factors Associated With Physician Self-Selection Into Payment Models
David Rudoler, Raisa Deber, Janet Barnsley, Richard H. Glazier, and Audrey Laporte
Optimal Co-Payment Policy In Health Care: Competition, Ownership Structure And Quality Provision
Rune Stenbacka, Mihkel Tombak
Baby Boomer caregivers in the workforce: Do they fare better or worse than their predecessors
Josephine C. Jacobs, Courtney H. Van Houtven, Audrey Laporte, Peter C. Coyte
The Effect of Leisure-time Physical Activity on Obesity, Diabetes, High BP and Heart Disease among Canadians: Evidence from 2000/01 to 2005/06
Sisira Sarma, Rose Anne Devlin, Jason Gilliland, M. Karen Campbell, & Gregory S. Zaric