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Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Behaviors after Three Years

Courtemanche, Charles - 2018

This paper examines the impacts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – which substantially increased insurance coverage …

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The Effects of DACA on Health Insurance, Access to Care, and Health Outcomes

Giuntella, Osea - 2018

This paper studies the effects of the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative on health insurance … discontinuity in program eligibility criteria. We find that DACA increased insurance coverage. In states that granted access to … Medicaid, the increase was driven by an increase in public insurance take-up. Where public coverage was not available, DACA …

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"Placebo Tests" for the Impacts of Air Pollution on Health : The Challenge of Limited Healthcare Infrastructure

Guidetti, Bruna; Pereda, Paula; Severnini, Edson - 2021

When examining the impacts of exposure to air pollution on health outcomes, researchers usually carry out "placebo tests" to provide evidence in support of their identification assumption. In general, this exercise targets health conditions seemingly unrelated to air pollution. In this study, we...

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Evaluating Nationwide Health Interventions When Standard Before-After DoesnﾒT Work : Malawi's Itn Distribution Program

Deuchert, Eva - 2010

Nationwide health interventions are difficult to evaluate as contemporaneous control groups do not exist and before-after approaches are usually infeasible. We propose an alternative semi-parametric estimator that is based on the assumption that the intervention has no direct effect on the...

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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Use of Drug Therapy

Bowblis, John - 2010

The purpose of this research is to explain the variation in the utilization of drug therapy for the medical conditions of depression, high cholesterol, and hypertension between Hispanics, non-Hispanic blacks, and non-Hispanics whites using Oaxaca-type decomposition analysis based on logit...

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Health Care Expenditure and Income in the OECD Reconsidered : Evidence from Panel Data

Baltagi, Badi H. - 2010

This paper reconsiders the long-run economic relationship between health care expenditure and income using a panel of 20 OECD countries observed over the period 1971-2004. In particular, the paper studies the non-stationarity and cointegration properties between health care spending and income....

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Mobile Applications Aiming to Facilitate Immigrants' Societal Integration and Overall Level of Integration, Health and Mental Health : Does Artificial Intelligence Enhance Outcomes...

Drydakis, Nick - 2021

Using panel data on immigrant populations from European, Asian and African countries the study estimates positive associations between the number of mobile applications in use aiming to facilitate immigrants' societal integration (m-Integration) and increased level of integration (Ethnosizer),...

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Health and Health Behaviors During the Worst of Times : Evidence from the Great Recession

Tekin, Erdal - 2013

While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus of these studies has been on the relatively milder recessions of the late 20th century. In this paper, we examine if the previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health...

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Did Medicaid Expansion Reduce Medical Divorce?

Slusky, David - 2020

Medical divorce occurs when couples split up so that one spouse's medical bills do not deplete the assets of the healthy spouse. It has not been studied in the economics literature, but it has been discussed by attorneys and widely reported in the media. We develop a model of medical divorce...

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Sunlight and Protection Against Influenza

Slusky, David - 2020

Recent medical literature suggests that vitamin D supplementation protects against acute respiratory tract infection. Humans exposed to sunlight produce vitamin D directly. This paper investigates how differences in sunlight, as measured over several years across states and during the same...

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