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Does Health Insurance Make People Happier? Evidence from Massachusetts' Healthcare Reform
Kim, Seonghoon - 2018
We study the effects of Massachusetts' healthcare reform on individuals' subjective well-being. Using data from the … Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we find that the reform significantly improved Massachusetts residents' overall life …-satisfaction. This result is robust to various sensitivity checks and a falsification test. We also find that the reform improved mental …
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The Effect of Health Insurance Reform : Evidence from China
He, Huajing - 2018
This paper estimates the impact of a health insurance reform on health outcomes in urban China. Using the China Health … and Nutrition Survey we find that this reform increases the rate of health insurance coverage significantly among workers … in Non-State Owned Enterprises. The double difference (DD) estimations show that the reform also leads to better health …
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The Value of Health Insurance : A Household Job Search Approach
Conti, Gabriella - 2018
low-educated families with children. We then develop and estimate a household search model that incorporates the pre-reform …
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A Dynamic Analysis of the Demand for Health Insurance and Health Care
Bolhaar, Jonneke; Lindeboom, Maarten; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2021
We investigate the presence of moral hazard and advantageous or adverse selection in a market for supplementary health insurance. For this we specify and estimate dynamic models for health insurance decisions and health care utilization. Estimates of the health care utilization models indicate...
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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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Analyzing Regional Variation in Health Care Utilization Using (Rich) Household Microdata
Eibich, Peter - 2013
This paper exploits rich SOEP microdata to analyze state-level variation in health care utilization in Germany. Unlike …
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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 through regulations, mandates, subsidies, and Medicaid expansions – on behaviors related to future health risks after three years. Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor...
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Introducing Risk Adjustment and Free Health Plan Choice in Employer-Based Health Insurance : Evidence from Germany
Pilny, Adam - 2017
To equalize differences in health plan premiums due to differences in risk pools, the German legislature introduced a simple Risk Adjustment Scheme (RAS) based on age, gender and disability status in 1994. In addition, effective 1996, consumers gained the freedom to choose among hundreds of...
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The Effect of a Ban on Gender-Based Pricing on Risk Selection in the German Health Insurance Market
Huang, Shan - 2018
used to be a pricing factor in Germany's private health insurance (PHI) sector, it was never used as a pricing factor in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906485
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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
Cawley, John - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
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