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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631585
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012194955
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011845580
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011724463
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003752850
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716529