Melissa A Thomasson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1471268 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Melissa A Thomasson |
| NOMBRES | Melissa A |
| APELLIDO | Thomasson |
| FIRMA | THOMASSON M A |
| AFILIACIONES | Miami University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9669-4323 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Shut down and shut out
In 1900, women constituted more than 10 percent of practicing physicians in some cities, but the share of American physicians who were female declined in the early twentieth century. This decline is often linked to the professionalization of medical practice and associated changes in medical education that led to a wave of medical school closures. Using a newly constructed panel dataset of medical colleges, we show that women’s access to medical …
School Closures during the 1918 Flu Pandemic
During the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic, many local authorities made the controversial decision to close schools. We use newly digitized data from newspaper archives on the length of school closures for 165 large U.S. cities during the 1918–1919 flu pandemic to assess the long-run consequences of closing schools on children. We find that the closures had no detectable impact on children's school attendance in 1920, nor on their educational attain…
Can pandemics affect educational attainment? Evidence from the polio epidemic of 1916
Medical education reforms and the origins of the rural physician shortage
Votes for Women
The ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 officially granted voting rights to women across the United States. However, many states extended full or partial suffrage to women before the federal amendment. In this paper, we discuss the history of women's enfranchisement using an economic lens. We examine the demand side, discussing the rise of the women's movement and its alliances with other social movements, and describe how suffragist…
Revising Infant Mortality Rates for the Early Twentieth Century United States
Accurate vital statistics are required to understand the evolution of racial disparities in infant health and the causes of rapid secular decline in infant mortality during the early twentieth century. Unfortunately, U.S. infant mortality rates prior to 1950 suffer from an upward bias stemming from a severe underregistration of births. At one extreme, African American births in southern states went unregistered at the rate of 15 % to 25 %. In thi…
Saving Babies
We take advantage of unique data on specific activities conducted under the Sheppard-Towner Act from 1924 through 1929 to focus on how public health interventions affected infant mortality. Interventions that provided one-on-one contact and opportunities for follow-up care, such as home visits by nurses and the establishment of health clinics, reduced infant deaths more than did classes and conferences. These interventions were particularly effec…
Hard times in the land of plenty
The Political Economy of Saving Mothers and Babies
Enacted in 1922 and repealed in 1929, the Sheppard-Towner program gave federal matching money to states to provide public health education to mothers. We examine variation in state participation in the program, and find that the timing of women's suffrage had an important impact. However, we find that the effect of suffrage was short-lived and did not influence public health spending after the program's repeal. We also find no evidence of a "demo…
From home to hospital
Racial Differences in Health Insurance Coverage and Medical Expenditures in the United States
This article uses a unique data set from 1957 to examine the racial gap in health insurance coverage and the extent to which that gap influenced racial differences in health care spending. Results indicate that black households in 1957 were statistically significantly less likely to purchase health insurance than white households, even after controlling for differences in income, years of schooling, age, family size, marital status, and other per…
Early evidence of an adverse selection death spiral? The case of Blue Cross and Blue Shield
From Sickness to Health
From Sickness to Health
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From Sickness to Health. The Twentieth-Century Development of the Demand for Health Insurance
This dissertation examines how governmental policies and other incentives have shaped the health insurance market over the period 1900-1960. The dissertation opens with an examination of the early health insurance market, and identifies key factors that contributed to both the initial development of the health insurance market, as well as to its development over time. While rising medical expenditures are usually posited as the catalyst for the i…
From Sickness to Health
From home to hospital
Saving Babies
We take advantage of unique data on specific activities conducted under the Sheppard-Towner Act from 1924 through 1929 to focus on how public health interventions affected infant mortality. Interventions that provided one-on-one contact and opportunities for follow-up care, such as home visits by nurses and the establishment of health clinics, reduced infant deaths more than did classes and conferences. These interventions were particularly effec…
Hard times in the land of plenty
The Political Economy of Saving Mothers and Babies
Enacted in 1922 and repealed in 1929, the Sheppard-Towner program gave federal matching money to states to provide public health education to mothers. We examine variation in state participation in the program, and find that the timing of women's suffrage had an important impact. However, we find that the effect of suffrage was short-lived and did not influence public health spending after the program's repeal. We also find no evidence of a "demo…
Revising Infant Mortality Rates for the Early Twentieth Century United States
Accurate vital statistics are required to understand the evolution of racial disparities in infant health and the causes of rapid secular decline in infant mortality during the early twentieth century. Unfortunately, U.S. infant mortality rates prior to 1950 suffer from an upward bias stemming from a severe underregistration of births. At one extreme, African American births in southern states went unregistered at the rate of 15 % to 25 %. In thi…
Votes for Women
The ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 officially granted voting rights to women across the United States. However, many states extended full or partial suffrage to women before the federal amendment. In this paper, we discuss the history of women's enfranchisement using an economic lens. We examine the demand side, discussing the rise of the women's movement and its alliances with other social movements, and describe how suffragist…
Early evidence of an adverse selection death spiral? The case of Blue Cross and Blue Shield
From Sickness to Health
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
From Sickness to Health. The Twentieth-Century Development of the Demand for Health Insurance
This dissertation examines how governmental policies and other incentives have shaped the health insurance market over the period 1900-1960. The dissertation opens with an examination of the early health insurance market, and identifies key factors that contributed to both the initial development of the health insurance market, as well as to its development over time. While rising medical expenditures are usually posited as the catalyst for the i…
From Sickness to Health
Early evidence of an adverse selection death spiral? The case of Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Racial Differences in Health Insurance Coverage and Medical Expenditures in the United States
This article uses a unique data set from 1957 to examine the racial gap in health insurance coverage and the extent to which that gap influenced racial differences in health care spending. Results indicate that black households in 1957 were statistically significantly less likely to purchase health insurance than white households, even after controlling for differences in income, years of schooling, age, family size, marital status, and other per…
From home to hospital
The Political Economy of Saving Mothers and Babies
Enacted in 1922 and repealed in 1929, the Sheppard-Towner program gave federal matching money to states to provide public health education to mothers. We examine variation in state participation in the program, and find that the timing of women's suffrage had an important impact. However, we find that the effect of suffrage was short-lived and did not influence public health spending after the program's repeal. We also find no evidence of a "demo…
Saving Babies
We take advantage of unique data on specific activities conducted under the Sheppard-Towner Act from 1924 through 1929 to focus on how public health interventions affected infant mortality. Interventions that provided one-on-one contact and opportunities for follow-up care, such as home visits by nurses and the establishment of health clinics, reduced infant deaths more than did classes and conferences. These interventions were particularly effec…
Hard times in the land of plenty
Revising Infant Mortality Rates for the Early Twentieth Century United States
Accurate vital statistics are required to understand the evolution of racial disparities in infant health and the causes of rapid secular decline in infant mortality during the early twentieth century. Unfortunately, U.S. infant mortality rates prior to 1950 suffer from an upward bias stemming from a severe underregistration of births. At one extreme, African American births in southern states went unregistered at the rate of 15 % to 25 %. In thi…
Medical education reforms and the origins of the rural physician shortage
Votes for Women
The ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 officially granted voting rights to women across the United States. However, many states extended full or partial suffrage to women before the federal amendment. In this paper, we discuss the history of women's enfranchisement using an economic lens. We examine the demand side, discussing the rise of the women's movement and its alliances with other social movements, and describe how suffragist…
Can pandemics affect educational attainment? Evidence from the polio epidemic of 1916
School Closures during the 1918 Flu Pandemic
During the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic, many local authorities made the controversial decision to close schools. We use newly digitized data from newspaper archives on the length of school closures for 165 large U.S. cities during the 1918–1919 flu pandemic to assess the long-run consequences of closing schools on children. We find that the closures had no detectable impact on children's school attendance in 1920, nor on their educational attain…
Shut down and shut out
In 1900, women constituted more than 10 percent of practicing physicians in some cities, but the share of American physicians who were female declined in the early twentieth century. This decline is often linked to the professionalization of medical practice and associated changes in medical education that led to a wave of medical school closures. Using a newly constructed panel dataset of medical colleges, we show that women’s access to medical …
Economics (12 obras) · Medicine (10 obras) · Economic growth (9 obras) · Health care (7 obras) · Business (6 obras) · Healthcare Policy and Management (6 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Demography (5 obras) · Global Health Care Issues (5 obras) · Health insurance (5 obras)