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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 … 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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Tax-Based Marriage Incentives in the Affordable Care Act

Isaac, Elliott; 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 sample...

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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...

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Conjugal Bereavement Effects on Health and Mortality at Advanced Ages

van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2007

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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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 coverage, access to care, health care use, and health outcomes. We exploit a difference-in-differences that relies on the discontinuity in program eligibility criteria. We find...

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Opt Out or Top Up? Voluntary Healthcare Insurance and the Public vs. Private Substitution

Fabbri, Daniele - 2011

We investigate whether people enrolled into voluntary health insurance (VHI) substitute public consumption with private (opt out) or just enlarge their private consumption, without reducing reliance upon public provisions (top up). We study the case of Italy, where a mixed insurance system is in...

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Impact of China's Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance on Health Care Utilization and Expenditure

Liu, Hong - 2012

In 2007, China launched a subsidized voluntary public health insurance program, the Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance, for urban residents without formal employment, including children, the elderly, and other unemployed urban residents. We estimate the impact of this program on health care...

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The Impact of Medicaid on Medical Utilization in a Vulnerable Population : Evidence from COFA Migrants

Halliday, Timothy - 2019

In March 2015, the State of Hawaii stopped covering the majority of migrants from countries belonging to the Compact of Free Association (COFA) in its Medicaid program. COFA migrants were required to obtain private insurance in the exchanges established under the Affordable Care Act. Using...

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An Ounce of Prevention for a Pound of Cure : Efficiency of Community-Based Healthcare

Bancalari, Antonella; Bernal, Pedro; Celhay, Pablo; … - 2023

We study the efficiency in health systems generated by community health teams, a common strategy in low- and middle-income countries for primary healthcare delivery. We exploit the rollout of a nation-wide expansion of coverage to this model in El Salvador. Using a panel dataset of...

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Consumption Smoothing in the Demand for Health Care

Kristensen, Nicolai - 2016

We investigate how, in temporary economic hardship, agents change their consumption of health services, and how this depends on whether the service is universally free-of-charge visits to GP's or privately co-financed dental care. We find that own expenditures for dental care decrease. The...

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