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Does medicaid coverage for pregnant women affect prenatal health behaviors?
Dave, Dhaval; Kaestner, Robert; Wehby, George - 2016
Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the Medicaid expansions of the 1980s and 1990s. In this paper, we provide the first national study of the effects of Medicaid on health behaviors for pregnant women, which is a group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452186
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On a tendency in health economics to dwell on income inequality and underestimate social stress
Stark, Oded - 2023
Social stress can cause physical and mental harm. It is therefore not surprising that public health policy makers have sought to identify and implement policies aimed at tackling this social ill. A frequently prescribed remedy is to reduce social stress by reducing income inequality, which is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278609
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Early retirement and post retirement health
Hallberg, Daniel; Johansson, Per-Olov; Josephson, Malin - 2014
This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the Swedish defense, the normal retirement age was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369753
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Education-related inequity in health care with heterogeneous reporting of health
Bago d'Uva, Teresa; Lindeboom, Maarten; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 2010
Reliance on self-rated health to proxy medical need can bias estimation of education-related inequity in health care utilisation. We correct this bias both by instrumenting self-rated health with objective health indicators and by purging self-rated health of reporting heterogeneity identified...
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The right to health and the health effects of denials
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Fernández, Manuel - 2021
have a constitutional right to health care, but insurance companies that manage delivery impose restrictions on access. We …
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The effects of DACA on health insurance, access to care, and health outcomes
Giuntella, Osea; Lonsky, Jakub - 2018
This paper studies the effects of the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative on health insurance … discontinuity in program eligibility criteria. We find that DACA increased insurance coverage. In states that granted access to … Medicaid, the increase was driven by an increase in public insurance take-up. Where public coverage was not available, DACA …
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An apple a day? : adult food stamp eligibility and health care utilization among immigrants
East, Chloe N.; Friedson, Andrew - 2018
government-provided health insurance programs such as Medicaid. …
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Do early life and contemporaneous macro-conditions explain health at older ages?
Portrait, France; Alessie, Rob; Deeg, Dorly - 2008
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A theory of socioeconomic disparities in health over the life cycle
Galama, Titus J.; Kippersluis, Hans van - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008654181
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Evaluation of the impact of the mother and infant health project in Ukraine
Nizalova, Olena; Vyshnya, Maria - 2009
This paper exploits a unique opportunity to evaluate the impact of the quality change in the labor and delivery services on maternal and infant health. Since basic medical care has been universally available in Ukraine, implementation of the Mother and Infant Health Project allows addressing...
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