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Beyond job lock : impacts of public health insurance on occupational and industrial mobility
Farooq, Ammar; Kugler, Adriana D. - 2016
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 over time through the 1990s and 2000s. We find that...
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The effect of public insurance expansions on substance use disorder treatment : evidence from the affordable care act
Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Saloner, Brendan - 2017
We examine the early effects of U.S. state Medicaid expansions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on substance use disorder (SUD) treatment utilization. We couple administrative data on admissions to specialty SUD treatment and prescriptions for medications used to treat SUDs in outpatient...
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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 affordable care act and the growth of involuntary part-time employment
Even, William E.; Macpherson, David A. - 2015
This study tests whether the employer mandate under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) increased involuntary part-time (IPT) employment. Using data from the Current Population Survey between 1994 and 2014, we find that IPT employment in 2014 was higher than predicted based on economic conditions and...
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The effects of the Affordable Care Act on labour supply and other uses of time
Bottasso, Anna; Cerruti, Gianluca; Conti, Maurizio; … - 2022
A vast literature studies the behavioural impacts of health care reforms, often coming to controversial conclusions. Here we examine the time allocation effects of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obama Care, focusing on two ACA pillars: Medicaid expansion, which increased access to public...
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Tax-based marriage incentives in the Affordable Care Act
Isaac, Elliot; Jiang, Haibin - 2022
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) introduced a premium tax credit to help low-income families purchase insurance and an individual mandate penalty to encourage purchasing insurance, but a couple’s total tax credit and mandate penalty may differ depending on whether they are married. We use a...
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The gift of a lifetime : the hospital, modern medicine, and mortality
Hollingsworth, Alex; Thomasson, Melissa A.; Karbownik, … - 2022
of the hospital from a fringe institution to one essential to the practice of medicine. Despite the central role of …. In this paper, we explore how access to the hospital and modern medicine affects mortality. We do so by leveraging a … combination of novel data and a unique quasi-experiment: a large-scale hospital modernization program introduced by The Duke …
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The effect of public insurance coverage for childless adults on labor supply
Dague, Laura; DeLeire, Thomas C.; Leininger, Lindsey - 2014
This study provides plausibly causal estimates of the effect of public insurance coverage on the employment of non-elderly, non-disabled adults without dependent children ("childless adults"). We use regression discontinuity and propensity score matching difference-indifferences methods to take...
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Early effects of the Affordable Care Act on health care access, risky health behaviors, and self-assessed health
Courtemanche, Charles; Marton, James; Ukert, Benjamin; … - 2017
The goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to achieve nearly universal health insurance coverage through a combination of mandates, subsidies, marketplaces, and Medicaid expansions, most of which took effect in 2014. We use data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to examine...
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Does medicaid coverage for pregnant women affect prenatal health behaviors?
Dave, Dhaval; Kaestner, Robert; Wehby, George - 2016
health behaviors for pregnant women, which is a group of particular interest given evidence of the importance of prenatal … women during late-1980s through mid-1990s to examine the effects of these policy changes on smoking, weight gain and other … associated with approximately a 3 percent increase in smoking and a small increase in pregnancy weight gain for most of the …
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