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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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Socialized healthcare and women's fertility decisions
Cesur, Resul; Güneş, Pinar Mine; Tekin, Erdal; Ulker, … - 2019
This paper examines the effect of a nationwide healthcare reform implemented in Turkey on women's fertility decisions. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), introduced in 2005, provided a wide-range of primary healthcare services, free of charge, and achieved universal access by matching each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011986012
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369753
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012609195
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011821446
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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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Education, information, and improved health : evidence from breast cancer screening
Chen, Keith (contributor); Lange, Fabian (contributor) - 2008
While it is well known that education strongly predicts health, less is known as to why. One reason might be that education improves health-care decision making. In this paper we attempt to disentangle improved decision making from other effects of education, and to quantify how large an impact...
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Anatomy of a health scare : education, income and the MMR controversy in the UK
Anderberg, Dan (contributor); Chevalier, Arnaud (contributor) - 2008
One theory for why there is a strong education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more quickly absorb new information about health technology. The MMR controversy in the UK provides a case where, for a brief period of time, some highly publicized research suggested...
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