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Medicaid expansion and the mental health of spousal caregivers
Costa-Font, Joan; Raut, Nilesh; Van Houtven, Courtney Harold - 2021
Health insurance expansions can exert wellbeing effects on individuals who provide informal care to their loved ones, reducing their experience of depression. This study exploits evidence from the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Medicaid expansion to examine the effects on the mental wellbeing of...
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The oral contraceptive pill and adolescents' mental health
Costa-Ramón, Ana; Daysal, N. Meltem; … - 2023
What is the impact of the oral contraceptive pill on the mental health of adolescent girls? Using administrative data from Denmark and exploiting the variation in the timing of pill initiation in an event study design, we find that the likelihood of a depression diagnosis and antidepressant use...
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Should individuals choose their own incentives? : evidence from a mindfulness meditation intervention
Woerner, Andrej; Romagnoli, Giorgia; Probst, Birgit M.; … - 2021
This paper theoretically and empirically investigates the effects of letting people choose from a menu of increasingly challenging incentive schemes. We derive the conditions under which a policy maker profits from leaving the choice to the individuals by leveraging their private information...
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Margins and market shares : pharmacy incentives for generic substitution
Brekke, Kurt R.; Holmås, Tor Helge; Straume, Odd Rune - 2012
version instead. We show that pharmacies' substitution incentives are determined by relative margins and relative patient … generics and their market shares. This relationship is stronger for pharmaceuticals under reference pricing rather than … coinsurance. In terms of policy implications, our results suggest that pharmacy incentives are crucial for promoting generic sales …
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Vaccination lottery
Kim, Duk Gyoo - 2021
Ohio announced a Vax-a-Million Lottery in May 2021 to encourage people vaccinated. If people may avoid vaccination because (1) they worry about rare but critical side effects or (2) they want to free ride on herd immunity, the vaccination lottery may work better or worse than a lump-sum transfer...
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Pension reform and labor market incentives
Fisher, Walter H. (contributor);  … - 2007
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The timing of retirement : new evidence from Swiss female workers
Hänel, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2012
We investigate the responsiveness of individual retirement decisions to changes in financial incentives. A reform … identify causal effects. We find strong and robust behavioral effects of changes in financial retirement incentives. A … low education respond most strongly to an increase in the price of leisure. -- retirement insurance ; incentives ; social …
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Social security incentives and human capital investment
Igel Lau, Morten; Poutvaara, Panu - 2001
systems on individuals incentives to invest in their human capital has not been analyzed. We integrate human capital …
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Will social security and Medicare remain viable as the U.S. population is aging? : an update
Bohn, Henning - 2003
Yes, subject to concerns about Medicare inefficiencies and potentially self-confirming skepticism. The U.S. social security system-broadly defined to include Medicare-faces significant financial problems as the result of an aging population. But demographic change is also likely to raise...
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Long-term care partnership effects on medicaid and private insurance
Costa-Font, Joan; Raut, Nilesh - 2021
Can the expansion of Medicaid, a means-tested health and long-term care insurance, be slowed down by incentivising the purchase of private long-term care insurance (LTCI)? We study the implementation of the long-term care insurance partnership (LTCIP) program, a joint federal and state-level...
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