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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...

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Does cutting child benefits reduce fertility in larger families? : evidence from the UK’s two-child limit

Reader, Mary; Portes, Jonathan; Patrick, Ruth - 2022

We study the impact of restricting child-related social assistance to the first two children in the family on the … fertility of third and subsequent births. As of April 2017, all third and subsequent born children to low-income families in the …

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Old-age pension and extended families : how is adult children's internal migration affected?

Chen, Xi - 2016

payment equips adult children of pensioners to migrate. Employing a regression discontinuity (hereafter RD) design to a … increase among adult sons (but not daughters) to migrate out of their home county. Meanwhile, adult children are more likely to …

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Spillover effects of old-age pension across generations : family labor supply and child outcomes

Kaufmann, Katja; Özdemir, Yasemin; Ye, Han - 2022

We study the impact of grandparental retirement decisions on family members' labor supply and child outcomes by … causes adult daughters with young children to work half an hour less. Daughters without children, with older children and … penalty. Test score effects are positive for children aged 4-7 (substitution from grandparental to maternal care), and …

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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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Who increases emergency department use? : new insights from the Oregon health insurance experiment

Denteh, Augustine; Liebert, Helge - 2022

We provide new insights regarding the finding that Medicaid increased emergency department (ED) use from the Oregon experiment. We find meaningful heterogeneous impacts of Medicaid on ED use using causal machine learning methods. The treatment effect distribution is widely dispersed, and the...

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Revisiting the connection between state Medicaid expansions and adult mortality

Courtemanche, Charles; Jones, Jordan; Koumpias, Antonios M. - 2022

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-amenable, non-healthcareamenable, and HIV-related mortality...

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Stable income, stable family

Lindo, Jason M.; Regmi, Krishna; Swensen, Isaac D. - 2022

We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy that leverages state-level changes in maximum benefits over time and comparisons across workers who have been laid off and those that have not been laid off. The results indicate...

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Short moves and long stays: homeless family responses to exogenous shelter assignments in New York City

Cassidy, Michael T. - 2020

Using an original administrative dataset in the context of a scarcity induced-natural experi-ment in New York City, I find that families placed in shelters in their neighborhoods of origin remain there considerably longer than those assigned to distant shelters. Locally-placed families also...

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Intergenerational spillovers in disability insurance

Dahl, Gordon B.; Gielen, Anne C. - 2018

Does participation in a social assistance program by parents have spillovers on their children's own participation … use rich panel data to link parents to children's long-run outcomes. The key to our regression discontinuity design is … that the reform applied to younger cohorts, while older cohorts were exempted from the new rules. We find that children of …

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