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The Impact of State Tax Subsidies for Private Long-Term Care Insurance on Coverage and Medicaid Expenditures
Goda, Gopi Shah - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
In spite of the large expected costs of needing long-term care, only 10-12 percent of the elderly population has private insurance coverage. Medicaid, which provides means-tested public assistance and pays for almost half of long-term care costs, spends more than $100 billion annually on...
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Has the Shift to Managed Care Reduced Medicaid Expenditures? Evidence from State and Local-Level Mandates
Duggan, Mark; Hayford, Tamara - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
From 1991 to 2003, the fraction of Medicaid recipients enrolled in HMOs and other forms of Medicaid managed care (MMC) increased from 11 percent to 58 percent. This increase was largely driven by state and local mandates that required most Medicaid recipients to enroll in an MMC plan....
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How Much Are Public School Teachers Willing to Pay for Their Retirement Benefits?
Fitzpatrick, Maria Donovan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Public sector employees receive large fractions of their lifetime income in the form of deferred compensation. The introduction of the opportunity provided to Illinois public school employees to purchase additional pension benefits allows me to estimate employees' willingness-to-pay for benefits...
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The Fiscal Stress Arising from State and Local Retiree Health Obligations
Lutz, Byron; Sheiner, Louise - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
paid to the costs of the other major retiree benefit provided by these governments: retiree health insurance. The first … portion of the paper uses the information contained in the annual actuarial reports for public retiree health plans to reverse … for the provision of retiree health care exceeds $1 trillion, or about ⅓ of total state and local government revenue …
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From Separate and Unequal to Integrated and Equal? School Desegregation and School Finance in Louisiana
Reber, Sarah J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
An important goal of the desegregation of schools following the Supreme Court's decision in Brown vs. Board of Education was to improve the quality of the schools black children attended. This paper uses a new dataset to examine the effects of desegregation on public and private enrollment and...
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Do Oil Windfalls Improve Living Standards? Evidence from Brazil
Caselli, Francesco; Michaels, Guy - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
We use variation in oil output among Brazilian municipalities to investigate the effects of resource windfalls. We find muted effects of oil through market channels: offshore oil has no effect on municipal non-oil GDP or its composition, while onshore oil has only modest effects on non-oil GDP...
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Welfare Spending and Mortality Rates for the Elderly Before the Social Security Era
Fishback, Price Vanmeter; Stoian, Adrian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
We analyze the impact of the original means-tested Old Age Assistance (OAA) programs on the health of the elderly prior …
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The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the First Year
Gruber, Jonathan; Finkelstein, Amy; Taubman, Sarah; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Medicaid. This lottery provides a unique opportunity to gauge the effects of expanding access to public health insurance on the … health care use, financial strain, and health of low-income adults using a randomized controlled design. In the year after … statistically significantly higher health care utilization (including primary and preventive care as well as hospitalizations …
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Inspection Technology, Detection and Compliance: Evidence from Florida Restaurant Inspections
Lee, Jungmin; Jin, Ginger Zhe - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
In this article, we show that a small innovation in inspection technology can make substantial differences in inspection outcomes. For restaurant hygiene inspections, the state of Florida has introduced a handheld electronic device, the portable digital assistant (PDA), which reminds inspectors...
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Battles Among Licensed Occupations: Analyzing Government Regulations on Labor Market Outcomes for Dentists and Hygienists
Kleiner, Morris M.; Park, Kyoung Won - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Occupational licensing is among the fastest-growing labor market institutions in the U.S. economy. One of the key features of occupational licensing is that the law determines who gets to do the work. In those cases where universally licensed occupations are both complements to and substitutes...
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