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Do minimum wage Increases influence worker health?

Horn, Brady P.; Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Strain, … - 2017

: worker health. To study this question, we use data on lesser-skilled workers from the 1993-2014 Behavioral Risk Factor … wage increases lead to improvements in overall worker health. In fact, we find some evidence that minimum wage increases … may decrease some aspects of health, especially among unemployed male workers. We also find evidence that increases reduce …

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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 effect of public insurance expansions on substance use disorder treatment : evidence from the affordable care act

Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Saloner, Brendan - 2017

We examine the early effects of U.S. state Medicaid expansions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on substance use disorder (SUD) treatment utilization. We couple administrative data on admissions to specialty SUD treatment and prescriptions for medications used to treat SUDs in outpatient...

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The impact of increased cost-sharing on utilization of low value services : evidence from the state of Oregon

Gruber, Jonathan; Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Wright, Bill - 2017

, advanced imaging, and surgeries). Using a differences-in-differences design coupled with granular, administrative health …

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Health insurance expansions and provider behavior : evidence from substance use disorder providers

Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Popovici, Ioana; Stern, … - 2017

We examine how substance use disorder (SUD) treatment providers respond to private health insurance expansions induced …

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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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