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Early effects of the Affordable Care Act on health care access, risky health behaviors, and self-assessed health

Courtemanche, Charles; Marton, James; Ukert, Benjamin; … - 2017

The goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to achieve nearly universal health insurance coverage through a … Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to examine the impacts of the ACA on health care access, risky health behaviors, and … self-assessed health after two years. We estimate difference-in-difference-in-differences models that exploit variation in …

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Chain restaurant calorie posting laws, obesity, and consumer welfare

Courtemanche, Charles; Frisvold, David E.; … - 2020

The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) introduced a mandate requiring chain restaurants to post calorie counts on menus and menu boards. This paper investigates whether and why calorie posting laws work. To do so, we develop a model of calories consumed that highlights two...

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Effects of the Affordable Care Act on health behaviors after three years

Courtemanche, Charles; Marton, James; Ukert, Benjamin; … - 2018

through regulations, mandates, subsidies, and Medicaid expansions - on behaviors related to future health risks after three …

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A retrospective look at rescuing and restructuring General Motors and Chrysler

Goolsbee, Austan; Krueger, Alan B. - 2015

This paper takes a retrospective look at the U.S. government's effort to rescue and restructure General Motors and Chrysler in the midst of the 2009 economic and financial crisis. The paper describes how two of the largest industrial companies in the world came to seek a bailout from the U.S....

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The Affordable Care Act and ambulance response times

Courtemanche, Charles; Friedson, Andrew; Koller, Andrew; … - 2017

This study contributes to the literature on supply-side adjustments to insurance expansions by examining the effect of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on ambulance response times. Exploiting temporal and geographic variation in the implementation of the ACA as well as pre-treatment differences in...

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Job search and unemployment insurance : new evidence from time use data

Krueger, Alan B. (contributor); Müller, Andreas (contributor) - 2008

This paper provides new evidence on job search intensity of the unemployed in the U.S., modeling job search intensity as time allocated to job search activities. The main findings are: 1) the average unemployed worker in the U.S. devotes about 41 minutes to job search on weekdays, which is...

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The lot of the unemployed : a time use perspective

Krueger, Alan B. (contributor); Müller, Andreas (contributor) - 2008

This paper provides new evidence on time use and subjective well-being of employed and unemployed individuals in 14 countries. We devote particular attention to characterizing and modeling job search intensity, measured by the amount of time devoted to searching for a new job. Job search...

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