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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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The determinants and consequences of child care subsidies for single mothers
Blau, David; Tekin, Erdal - 2001
This paper provides an early analysis of child care subsidies under welfare reform. Previous studies of child care subsidies use data from the pre-welfare-reform period, and their results may not apply to the very different post-reform environment. We use data from the 1997 National Survey of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404078
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New evidence on the motherhood wage gap
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina (contributor);  … - 2008
the increasing importance of non-wage benefits in total compensation packages. As hedonic wage theory suggests, mothers … might view health benefits as desirable and trade-off wages for health insurance. Thus, lower wages for mothers might …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003750312
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Minimum wages and the health of Hispanic women
Averett, Susan; Smith, Julie K.; Yang Wang - 2017
States are increasingly resorting to raising the minimum wage to boost the earnings of those at the bottom of the income distribution. In this paper, we examine the effects of minimum wage increases on the health of low-educated Hispanic women, who constitute a growing part of the U.S. labor...
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Did the ACA Medicaid Expansion save lives?
Borgschulte, Mark; Vogler, Jacob - 2019
We estimate the effect of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion on county-level mortality in the first four years following expansion. We find a reduction in all-cause mortality in ages 20 to 64 equaling 11.36 deaths per 100,000 individuals, a 3.6 percent decrease. This estimate is largely...
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The impact of children's access to public health insurance on their cognitive development and behavior
Hull, Marie; Yan, Ji - 2024
While a large literature examines the immediate and long-run effects of public health insurance, much less is known about the impacts of total program exposure on child developmental outcomes. This paper uses an instrumental variable strategy to estimate the effect of cumulative eligibility gain...
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Estimating heterogeneous take-up and crowd-out responses to marginal and non-marginal Medicaid expansions
Ham, John C.; Ozbeklik, I. Serkan; Shore-Sheppard, Lara D. - 2011
We use a linear probability model with interactions and a switching probit model (SPM) to estimate heterogeneous effects of Medicaid expansions on Medicaid take-up, private insurance coverage and crowd-out. Specifically, we estimate: i) LATEs; ii) ATETs for the currently eligible; and iii) ATETs...
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Transition patterns for the welfare reliance of low income mothers in Australia
Gong, Xiaodong (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Two decades of welfare reforms in Australia: how did they affect single mothers and their children?
Gendre, Alexandra de; Schurer, Stefanie; Zhang, Huyue - 2021
Worldwide, single mothers are profoundly time and income constrained, making them heavily reliant on government … transfers. We examine how welfare reforms that introduced mutual obligations affected the economic position of single mothers … data, we show that disposable incomes of single-mother households were significantly reduced relative to partnered mothers …
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Long-run consequences of health insurance promotion : evidence from a field experiment in Ghana
Asuming, Patrick Opoku; Kim, Hyuncheol Bryant; Sim, Armand - 2017
We study the long-run impacts of health insurance promotion in Northern Ghana. We randomly provide three overlapping interventions to promote enrollment: subsidy, information campaign, and convenient sign-up option, with follow-up surveys seven months and three years after the initial...
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