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The Value of Socialized Medicine : The Impact of Universal Primary Healthcare Provision on Birth and Mortality Rates in Turkey
Cesur, Resul - 2015
This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), launched in 2005,...
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Losing Insurance and Behavioral Health Hospitalizations : Evidence from a Large-Scale Medicaid Disenrollment
Maclean, Catherine - 2019
We study the effects of losing insurance on behavioral health – mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) – community hospitalizations. We leverage variation in public insurance eligibility offered by a large-scale Medicaid disenrollment. Losing insurance decreased SUD-related...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865866
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Do Minimum Wage Increases Influence Worker Health?
Horn, Brady - 2017
This study investigates whether minimum wage increases in the United States affect an important non-market outcome: worker health. To study this question, we use data on lesser-skilled workers from the 1993-2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Surveys coupled with differences-in-differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965013
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Health Insurance Expansions and Provider Behavior : Evidence from Substance Use Disorder Providers
Maclean, Johanna Catherine - 2017
We examine how substance use disorder (SUD) treatment providers respond to private health insurance expansions induced by state equal coverage ('parity') laws for SUD treatment. We use data on the near universe of specialty SUD treatment providers in the United States between 1997 and 2010 in an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965014
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The Impact of Increased Cost-Sharing on Utilization of Low Value Services : Evidence from the State of Oregon
Gruber, Jonathan - 2017
In this study we examine the impact of a value-based insurance design (V-BID) program implemented between 2010 and 2013 at a large public employer in the state of Oregon. The program substantially increased cost-sharing, specifically copayments and coinsurance, for several healthcare services...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965015
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Maternal Stress During Pregnancy and Early Childhood Development
Berthelon, Matias - 2018
trimester of pregnancy. The negative impact on cognitive skills and development is concentrated on lower-income children and …
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Does Grief Transfer Across Generations? In-Utero Deaths and Child Outcomes
Black, Sandra E. - 2014
death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of the mother's parent during pregnancy on both the short-run and the … control for whether there is a death around the time of the pregnancy in order to isolate true causal effects of a bereavement … during pregnancy.We find small negative effects on birth outcomes, and these effects are bigger for boys than for girls. The …
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Effects of the Minimum Wage on Infant Health
Wehby, George - 2016
meaningful and plausible. We also find evidence of an increase in prenatal care use and a decline in smoking during pregnancy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986772
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Labor Market Effects of Intrauterine Exposure to Nutritional Deficiency : Evidence from Administrative Data on Muslim Immigrants in Denmark
Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise - 2014
This paper examines whether nutritional disruptions experienced during the stage of fetal development impair an individual's labor market productivity later in life. We consider intrauterine exposure to the month of Ramadan as a natural experiment that might cause shocks to the inflow of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013042975
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Prenatal Sunshine Exposure and Birth Outcomes in China
Zhang, Xin - 2020
a reduction in the incidence of LBW and SGA, especially in the second trimester during pregnancy. This finding was …
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