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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452186
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278609
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Alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms : impacts on routine preventative health clinic visits in Burkina Faso
Akresh, Richard; De Walque, Damien; Kazianga, Harounan - 2012
We conducted a unique randomized experiment to estimate the impact of alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms on household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that were either conditional or...
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Quality and quantity in primary care mixed payment models : evidence from family health organizations in Ontario
Kantarevic, Jasmin; Kralj, Boris - 2011
We study the impact of a mixed capitation model known as the Family Health Organization (FHO) on selected quality and quantity outcomes relative to an enhanced fee-for-service model known as the Family Health Group (FHG) among primary care physicians in Ontario, Canada. Using a panel of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307981
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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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An ounce of prevention for a pound of cure : efficiency of community-based healthcare
Antonella Bancalari, Antonella; Bernal, Pedro; Celhay, … - 2023
We study the efficiency in health systems generated by community health teams, a common strategy in low- and middle-income countries for primary healthcare delivery. We exploit the rollout of a nation-wide expansion of coverage to this model in El Salvador. Using a panel dataset of...
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Healthcare appointments as commitment devices
Derksen, Laura; Kerwin, Jason; Reynoso, Natalia Ordaz; … - 2024
We show that ordinary appointments can act as effective substitutes for hard commitment devices and increase demand for a critical healthcare service, particularly among those with self-control problems. We show this using an experiment that randomly offered HIV testing appointments and hard...
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