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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...

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Socialized healthcare and women's fertility decisions

Cesur, Resul; Güneş, Pinar Mine; Tekin, Erdal; Ulker, … - 2019

This paper examines the effect of a nationwide healthcare reform implemented in Turkey on women's fertility decisions. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), introduced in 2005, provided a wide-range of primary healthcare services, free of charge, and achieved universal access by matching each...

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Losing insurance and behavioral health hospitalizations : evidence from a large-scale Medicaid disenrollment

Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Tello Trillo, Daniel S.; … - 2019

We study the effects of losing insurance on behavioral health - mental health and substance use disorder (SUD …) - community hospitalizations. We leverage variation in public insurance eligibility offered by a large-scale Medicaid … disenrollment. Losing insurance decreased SUD-related hospitalizations but mental illness hospitalizations were unchanged. Use of …

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Mobility, taxation and welfare

Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Araar, Abdelkrim - 2011

Income mobility is often thought to equalize permanent incomes and thereby to improve social welfare. The welfare analysis of mobility often fails, however, to account for the cost of the variability of periodic incomes around permanent incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of...

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A theory for ranking distribution functions

Aaberge, Rolf; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2013

When is one distribution (of income, consumption, or some other economic variable) more equal or better than another? This question has proven difficult to answer in situations where distribution functions intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker criteria...

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An adverse social welfare effect of quadruply gainful trade

Stark, Oded; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2020

Acknowledging that individuals dislike having low relative income renders trade less attractive when seen as a technology that integrates two economies by merging separate social spheres into one. We define a "trembling trade" as a situation in which gains from trade are less than losses in...

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Switching queues, cultural conventions, and social welfare

Stark, Oded; Budziński, Wiktor; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2019

We use queuing-related behavior as an instrument for assessing the social appeal of alternative cultural norms. Specifically, we study the behavior of rational and sophisticated individuals who stand in a given queue waiting to be served, and who, in order to speed up the process, consider...

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The optimal graduated minimum wage and social welfare

Danziger, Eliav; Danziger, Leif - 2018

This paper analyzes the effects of introducing a graduated minimum wage in a model with optimal in-come taxation in which a government seeks to maximize social welfare. It shows that the optimal graduated minimum wage increases social welfare by increasing the lowproductivity workers'...

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Industrial development and social welfare : a case study of Iran

Basakha, Mehdi; Kamal, Seyed Hossein Mohaqeqi - In: Socio-economic planning sciences : the international … 68 (2019), pp. 1-7

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Happiness and public policy : a procedural perspective

Stutzer, Alois - 2019

This article comments on the role of empirical subjective well-being research in public policy within a constitutional, procedural perspective of government and state. It rejects the idea that, based on the promises of the measurement, we should adopt a new policy perspective that is oriented...

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