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Did Medicaid expansion reduce medical divorce?
Slusky, David; Ginther, Donna K. - 2020
Medical divorce occurs when couples split up so that one spouse's medical bills do not deplete the assets of the … reported in the media. We develop a model of medical divorce that demonstrates that divorce is optimal when a couple's joint … qualify for Medicaid as exogenous variation in the incidence of divorce (as it was only implemented by some states). We find …
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Hit where it hurts : healthcare access and intimate partner violence
Bellés-Obrero, Cristina; Rice, Caoimhe T.; Vall … - 2023
This paper investigates the causal link between healthcare access and the help-seeking behavior of intimate partner violence (IPV) victims. Healthcare access can be an important entry point for screening or detecting IPV. Doctors are required by law to report any injuries to a judge if they...
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Accessing the safety net : how Medicaid affects health and recidivism
Packham, Analisa; Slusky, David - 2023
We estimate the causal impact of access to means-tested public health insurance coverage (Medicaid) on health outcomes and recidivism for those recently released from incarceration. To do so, we leverage a policy change in South Carolina that allowed simplified Medicaid re-enrollment for...
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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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Medicaid expansion and the mental health of spousal caregivers
Costa-Font, Joan; Raut, Nilesh; Van Houtven, Courtney Harold - 2021
Health insurance expansions can exert wellbeing effects on individuals who provide informal care to their loved ones, reducing their experience of depression. This study exploits evidence from the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Medicaid expansion to examine the effects on the mental wellbeing of...
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Marriage in old age : what can we learn about policy impacts on same-sex couples?
Friedberg, Leora; Isaac, Elliott - 2023
Recipiency of tax or transfer benefits in the United States often depends on marital status, creating complicated incentives that reward marriage for some and penalize it for others. Same-sex couples, who only recently gained the right to marry, now face the same marriage incentives that...
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Does marriage make people happy, or do happy people get married?
Stutzer, Alois (contributor); Frey, Bruno S. (contributor) - 2005
This paper analyzes the causal relationships between marriage and subjective well-being in a longitudinal data set spanning 17 years. We find evidence that happier singles opt more likely for marriage and that there are large differences in the benefits from marriage between couples. Potential,...
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How much can we trust causal interpretations of fixed-effects estimators in the context of criminality?
Bjerk, David - 2009
Researchers are often interested in estimating the causal effect of some treatment on individual criminality. For example, two recent relatively prominent papers have attempted to estimate the respective direct effects of marriage and gang participation on individual criminal activity. One...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003895082
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Conjugal bereavement effects on health and mortality at advanced ages
Berg, Gerard J. van den (contributor);  … - 2006
"We specify a model for the lifetimes of spouses and the dynamic evolution of health, allowing spousal death to have causal effects on the health and mortality of the survivor. We estimate the model using a longitudinal survey that traces many health status aspects over time, and that is linked...
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On the rise of health spending and longevity
Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Galama, Titus; … - 2009
We use a calibrated stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and life expectancy over the period 1965-2005. We estimate that technological change along with the increase in the...
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