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Public Health Insurance and Entry into Self-Employment

Fossen, Frank M.; König, Johannes - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

insurance system on the entry rate into entrepreneurship. In Germany, the public health insurance system is mandatory for most … representative household panel data for Germany, which include personal health information, and we account for non-random sample … care reforms, not only in the USA and in Germany. …

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The Impact of Health Insurance on Stockholding: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Christelis, Dimitris; Georgarakos, Dimitris; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Using data from the US Health and Retirement Study, we study the causal effect of increased health insurance coverage through Medicare and the associated reduction in health-related background risk on financial risk-taking. Given the onset of Medicare at age 65, we identify our effect of...

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Can Microinsurance Help Prevent Child Labor? An Impact Evaluation from Pakistan

Landmann, Andreas; Frölich, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Child labor is a common consequence of economic shocks in developing countries. We show how reducing vulnerability can affect child labor and schooling. We exploit the extension of a health and accident insurance scheme by a Pakistani microfinance institution (MFI) that was set up as a...

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Job Lock: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Fairlie, Robert W.; Kapur, Kanika; Gates, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Employer-provided health insurance may restrict job mobility, resulting in "job lock." Previous research on job lock finds mixed results using several methodologies. We take a new approach to examine job-lock by exploiting the discontinuity created at age 65 through the qualification for...

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The Effect of Public Insurance Coverage for Childless Adults on Labor Supply

Dague, Laura; DeLeire, Thomas C.; Leininger, Lindsey - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This study provides plausibly causal estimates of the effect of public insurance coverage on the employment of non-elderly, non-disabled adults without dependent children ("childless adults"). We use regression discontinuity and propensity score matching difference-in-differences methods to take...

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Social Learning and Health Insurance Enrollment: Evidence from China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme

Liu, Hong; Sun, Qi; Zhao, Zhong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper examines the role of social learning in household enrollment decisions for the New Cooperative Medical Scheme in rural China by estimating a static game with incomplete information. Using a rich dataset from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we find that the social network...

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Race, Ethnicity and the Dynamics of Health Insurance Coverage

Fairlie, Robert W.; London, Rebecca A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Using matched data from the 1996 to 2004 Current Population Survey (CPS), we examine racial patterns in annual transitions into and out of health insurance coverage. We first decompose racial differences in static health insurance coverage rates into group differences in transition rates into...

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The Effect of an Employer Health Insurance Mandate on Health Insurance Coverage and the Demand for Labor: Evidence from Hawaii

Buchmueller, Thomas C.; DiNardo, John; Valletta, Rob - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Over the past few decades, policy makers have considered employer mandates as a strategy for stemming the tide of declining health insurance coverage. In this paper we examine the long term effects of the only employer health insurance mandate that has ever been enforced in the United States,...

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Employment-Contingent Health Insurance, Illness and Labor Supply of Women: Evidence from Married Women with Breast Cancer

Bradley, Cathy J.; Neumark, David; Luo, Zhehui; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We examine the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on married women’s labor supply following a health shock. First, we develop a theoretical model that examines the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on the labor supply response to a health shock, to clarify under...

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Medical Interventions among Pregnant Women in Fee-for-Service and Managed Care Insurance: A Propensity Score Analysis

Turcotte, Leo; Robst, John; Polachek, Solomon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We extend prior research on the effect of managed care on the receipt of four medical interventions for pregnant women: ultrasound, induction/stimulation of birth, electronic fetal monitor, and cesarean delivery. Propensity score methods are used to account for sample selection issues regarding...

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