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The Super Size of America: An Economic Estimation of Body Mass Index and Obesity in Adults

Kelly, Inas Rashad; Grossman, Michael; Chou, Shin-Yi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

The increased prevalence of obesity in the United States stresses the pressing need for answers as to why this rapid rise has occurred. This paper employs micro-level data from the First, Second, and Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys to determine the effects that various...

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Changes in the Welfare Caseload and the Health of Low-educated Mothers

Kaestner, Robert; Tarlov, Elizabeth - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

Declines in the welfare caseload in the late 1990s brought significant change to the lives of many low-educated, single mothers. Many single mothers left welfare and entered the labor market and others re-arranged their lives in order to avoid going on public assistance. These changes may have...

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Does Medicaid Coverage for Pregnant Women Affect Prenatal Health Behaviors?

Dave, Dhaval M.; Kaestner, Robert; Wehby, George L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the Medicaid expansions of the 1980s and 1990s for pregnant women. Accordingly, we provide the first national study of the effects of Medicaid on health behaviors for pregnant women....

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Medicare Part D and its Effect on the Use of Prescription Drugs, Use of Other Health Care Services and Health of the Elderly

Kaestner, Robert; Khan, Nasreen - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

We examine the effect of gaining prescription drug insurance as a result of Medicare Part D on use of prescription drugs, use of other medical services, and health for a nationally representative sample of Medicare beneficiaries. Given the heightened importance of prescription drugs for those...

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Effects of Urban Sprawl on Obesity

Kaestner, Robert; Zhao, Zhenxiang - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

In this paper, we examine the effect of changes in population density--urban sprawl--between 1970 and 2000 on BMI and obesity of residents in metropolitan areas in the US. We address the possible endogeneity of population density by using a two-step instrumental variables approach. We exploit...

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Long Term Effects of Minimum Legal Drinking Age Laws on Adult Alcohol Use and Driving Fatalities

Kaestner, Robert; Yarnoff, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

We examine whether adult alcohol consumption and traffic fatalities are associated with the legal drinking environment when a person was between the ages of 18 and 20. We find that moving from an environment in which a person was never allowed to drink legally to one in which a person could...

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Effects of Prescription Drug Insurance on Hospitalization and Mortality: Evidence from Medicare Part D

Kaestner, Robert; Long, Cuiping; Alexander, G. Caleb - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We examine whether obtaining prescription drug insurance through the Medicare Part D program affected hospital admissions, expenditures associated with those admissions, and mortality. We use a large, geographically diverse sample of Medicare beneficiaries and exploit the natural experiment of...

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Childhood Medicaid Coverage and Later Life Health Care Utilization

Kaestner, Robert; Meyer, Bruce D.; Wherry, Laura R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

Policy-makers have argued that providing public health insurance coverage to the uninsured lowers long-run costs by reducing the need for expensive hospitalizations and emergency department visits later in life. In this paper, we provide evidence for such a phenomenon by exploiting a legislated...

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How Does the Business Cycle Affect Eating Habits?

Dave, Dhaval M.; Kelly, Inas Rashad - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

(1990-2007) to explore the relationship between the risk of unemployment and the consumption of various healthy and … unhealthy foods. Estimates, based on fixed effects methodologies, indicate that a higher risk of unemployment is associated with … stratifications and by isolating the effect for those predicted to be at highest risk of unemployment based on their socio …

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Early Life Environment and Racial Inequality in Education and Earnings in the United States

Chay, Kenneth; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...

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