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Length of Life for Older Americans: Location Matters
The most recent issue of the Bulletin on Health features a study that examines the
longevity of Medicare beneficiaries who move from one location to another.Using a panel of Medicare data, the researchers estimate that remaining life expectancy at age 65 increases by 1.1 years for a person moving from an area in the lowest 10 percent in terms of life expectancy impact to one in the highest 10 percent. Equalizing the effects of location would eliminate 15 percent of the variation in life expectancy across areas. Also featured in this issue of the Bulletin on Health are studies of birth outcomes at hospitals with relatively high C-section rates, and the effects of increased Medicaid reimbursement rates on patient access to care.
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Reviews Major Sources of High US Medical Costs
The lead article in the new NBER Reporter provides an overview of scores of working papers that explore Americans' soaring medical costs, their declining life expectancy, and impacts of the Affordable Care Act. Also in this edition of the free, quarterly Reporter, in which NBER researchers summarize work in sub-fields of economics, are articles on
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7 February 2020
Spillovers from Publicy-Supported R&D
Using OECD and French data, Enrico Moretti, Claudia Steinwender, and John Van Reenen find that increases in government-funded R&D for an industry or a firm result in significant increases in private sector R&D.
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The Impact of Europe's Data Rules on the Internet
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation has had no effect on the number or types of interconnection agreements between independently operated networks and the Internet, Ran Zhuo, Bradley Huffaker, KC Claffy, and Shane Greenstein find.
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5 February 2020
Financial Stability and Transmission of Monetary Policy
When banks face capital constraints, monetary policy easing by the central bank may be less effective than otherwise because these constraints impair both the bank-lending channel and the central bank's lender-of-last-resort function, according to a study by Viral V. Acharya, Björn Imbierowicz, Sascha Steffen, and Daniel Teichmann.
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The Role That Self-Employment Plays
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Understanding the trends in self-employment at older ages is increasingly important as more Americans work into their later years. Results of a survey on self-employment is summarized in the winter issue of the free Bulletin on Retirement and Disability. The research shows that the share of self-employed rises sharply with age and that highly educated older adults are considerably more likely to be self-employed than less-educated workers. Also featured in this issue: a summary of research on
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