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Public health insurance and entry into self-employment

Fossen, Frank M.; König, Johannes - 2015

these dimensions and if membership in the public health insurance allows other family members to be covered by contribution …-free family insurance. Therefore, the health insurance system can create incentives or disincentives to starting up a business … depending on the family situation and health. We estimate a discrete time hazard rate model of entrepreneurial entry based on …

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Inattention and switching costs as sources of inertia in medicare part D

Heiss, Florian; McFadden, Daniel; Winter, Joachim; … - 2019

Consumers' health plan choices are highly persistent even though optimal plans change over time. This paper separates two sources of inertia, inattention to plan choice and switching costs. We develop a panel data model with separate attention and choice stages, linked by heterogeneity in...

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Patient versus provider incentives in long-term care

Hackmann, Martin B.; Pohl, R. Vincent; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2023

How do patient and provider incentives affect the provision of long-term care? Our analysis of 551 thousand nursing home stays yields three main insights. First, Medicaid-covered residents prolong their stays instead of transitioning to community-based care due to limited cost-sharing. Second,...

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The effect of childcare on parental earnings trajectories

Krapf, Matthias; Roth, Anja; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2020

We study the effect of childcare availability on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the staggered opening od childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare facilities in the year of birth of the first child...

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The long-lasting effects of family and childhood on adult wellbeing : evidence from British cohort data

Clark, Andrew E.; Fleche, Sarah; Lekfuangfu, Warn N. - 2017

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Complexity and benefit take-up: Empirical evidence from the Finnish homecare allowance

Blumkin, Tomer; Kosonen, Tuomas; Kotakorpi, Kaisa - 2018

-level data on mothers of young children together with municipal-level data on the application rules for the benefit. Variation in …

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Inequality-minimization with a given public budget

König, Johannes; Schröder, Carsten - 2016

We solve the problem of a social planner who seeks to minimize inequality via transfers with a fixed public budget in a distribution of exogenously given incomes. The appropriate solution method depends on the objective function: If it is convex, as in the case of the absolute mean deviation, it...

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The state and income inequality in Brazil

Souza, Marcelo Medeiros Coelho de; Souza, Pedro H. G. F. de - 2015

Using a factor decomposition of the Gini coefficient we measure the contribution to inequality of direct monetary income flows to and from the Brazilian State. The income flows from the State include public servants' earnings, Social Security pensions, unemployment benefits and Social Assistance...

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The distributional impact of social spending in Peru

Gaentzsch, Anja - 2018

Peru has made great progress in reducing poverty and inequality in the past decade alongside high economic growth. Albeit this progress, the incidence of poverty and inequality remain high. This paper examines the distributional and poverty impact of the public tax and transfer system in Peru....

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Mimicking the opposition : Bismarck's welfare state and the rise of the socialists

Kersting, Felix - 2023

This paper examines the consequences of a government mimicking the policy of its competitor by studying the introduction of the welfare state in 19th century Germany. The reform conducted by the conservative government targeted blue-collar workers and aimed to reduce the success of the socialist...

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