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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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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...

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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...

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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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Wage risk, employment risk and the rise in wage inequality

Mecikovsky, Ariel Matias; Wellschmied, Felix - 2016

We estimate the changes in US male labor market risk over the last three decades in a model of endogenous labor supply and job mobility. Across education groups permanent shocks to productivity have become more dispersed. Moreover, heterogeneity in pay across offered jobs has increased for...

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Evaluating nationwide health interventions when standard before-after doesn’t work : Malawi’s ITN distribution program

Deuchert, Eva; Wunsch, Conny - 2010

Nationwide health interventions are difficult to evaluate as contemporaneous control groups do not exist and before-after approaches are usually infeasible. We propose an alternative semi-parametric estimator that is based on the assumption that the intervention has no direct effect on the...

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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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On the rise of health spending and longevity

Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Galama, Titus; … - 2009

technological change along with the increase in the generosity of health insurance may explain independently 53% of the rise in … health spending (insurance 29% and technology 24%) while income less than 10%. By simultaneously occurring over this period … 59% of the rise in life expectancy at age 50 over this period while insurance and income explain less than 10%. -- Demand …

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