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through regulations, mandates, subsidies, and Medicaid expansions - on behaviors related to future health risks after three … variation in pre-ACA uninsured rates and state Medicaid expansion decisions, we show that the ACA increased preventive care … law, as opposed to the Medicaid expansion. We also conduct subsample analyses by income and age. …
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This paper examines the impact of Medicaid expansions to parents and childless adults on adult mortality. Specifically …, we evaluate the long-run effects of eight state Medicaid expansions from 1994 through 2005 on all-cause, healthcare … across all treated states. Using a 5% significance level, we find no evidence that Medicaid expansions affect any of the …
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We examine whether greater Medicaid generosity encourages mobility towards riskier but better jobs in higher paid … occupations and industries. We use Current Population Survey Data and exploit variation in Medicaid thresholds across states and … Medicaid income thresholds increases occupational and industrial mobility by 7.6% and 7.8%. We also find that higher income …
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-in-difference (DD) regressions to estimate the effect of the Medicaid expansion on anxiety and depression associated with job loss …. Estimates show that the respondents who live in expansion states are 96.6% (36.3%) more likely to have Medicaid coverage, and … Medicaid is as important (if not more) as the access or utilization to healthcare. The difference …
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Can the expansion of Medicaid, a means-tested health and long-term care insurance, be slowed down by incentivising the …-in-differences (DD) design we study the effect of the rollout of the LTCIP program between 2005 and 2016 on both LTCI uptake and Medicaid … eligibility, and we estimate the effect on Medicaid savings. Drawing on a difference-in-differences (DD) design, we find that …
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combination of mandates, subsidies, marketplaces, and Medicaid expansions, most of which took effect in 2014. We use data from the … treatment intensity from state participation in the Medicaid expansion and pre-ACA uninsured rates. Results suggest that the ACA … led to sizeable improvements in access to health care in both Medicaid expansion and non-expansion states, with the gains …
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We examine the early effects of U.S. state Medicaid expansions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on substance use … expansion, Medicaid-reimbursed prescriptions for medications used to treat SUDs in outpatient settings increased by 33% in … states Medicaid insurance and use of Medicaid to pay for treatment increased by 58% and 57% following the expansion. In an …
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This paper exploits a new source of variation in Head Start funding to identify the program's effects on health and schooling. In 1965 the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) provided technical assistance to the 300 poorest counties to develop Head Start proposals. The result was a large and...
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Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
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A rich economic literature has examined the human capital impacts of disease-eliminating health interventions, such as the rollout of new vaccines. This literature is based on reduced-form approaches which exploit proxies for disease burden, such as mortality, instead of actual infection counts,...
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