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We study how men's dependence on their own employer for health insurance affects labor supply responses and loss of health insurance coverage when faced with a serious health shock. Men with employment-contingent health insurance (ECHI) are more likely to remain working following some kinds of...
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markets. We use data on individuals at risk for Huntington disease (HD), a degenerative neurological disorder with significant …
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Few studies have addressed how use of care may vary over the course of an episode of being uninsured or across uninsured episodes of varying duration. This research models the probability that an uninsured individual has (a) any medical expenditures or charges, and (b) any office-based visit...
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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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One of the most sizable and least predictable shocks to economic opportunities in developing countries is major illness, both in terms of medical care expenditures and lost income from reduced labor supply and productivity. As a result, families may not be able to smooth their consumption over...
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The Affordable Care Act includes four significant, permanent, implicit unemployment assistance programs, plus various …
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In many countries, social security insures firms against their workers' sickness absences. The insurance may create a moral hazard for firms, leading to inefficient monitoring of absences or to an underinvestment in the prevention of absences. We exploit an administrative threshold in the...
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This paper documents two COVID-related risks, viral risk and employment risk, and their distributions across the Canadian population. The measurement of viral risk is based on the VSE COVID Risk/Reward Assessment Tool, created to assist policymakers in determining the impacts of economic...
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The cross-sectional association between pain and unemployment is well-established. But the absence of panel data … are more likely than others to leave their job for unemployment or economic inactivity. This probability rises with the …
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While there has been considerable discussion of the adequacy of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits as a form of … income replacement, there is little evidence on the other resources that the unemployed have to finance their unemployment … financial assets sufficient to finance roughly two-thirds of the income loss from an unemployment spell, but that there is …
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