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Using SOEP panel data and difference-in-differences methods, this study is the first to empirically evaluate the effectiveness of four different health care cost containment measures within an integrated framework. The four measures investigated were introduced in Germany in 1997 to reduce moral...
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Using SOEP panel data and difference-in-differences methods, this study is the first to empirically evaluate the effectiveness of four different health care cost containment measures within an integrated framework. The four measures investigated were introduced in Germany in 1997 to reduce moral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008922960
created at age 65 through the qualification for Medicare. Using a novel procedure for identifying age in months from matched … evidence that job mobility increases at the age 65 threshold when Medicare eligibility starts. We also do not find evidence …
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discontinuity created at age 65 through the qualification for Medicare. Using a novel procedure of identifying age in months from …
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for Medicare. These results are robust to potential changes in risk-taking behavior and physical health at the same age …
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through Medicare and the associated reduction in health-related background risk on financial risk-taking. Given the onset of … Medicare at age 65, we identify our effect of interest using a regression discontinuity approach. We find that getting Medicare …
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In 1966, Southern hospitals were barred from participating in Medicare unless they discontinued their long …-standing practice of racial segregation. Using data from five Deep South states and exploiting county-level variation in Medicare … mortality gap, although it may have discouraged small numbers of Black mothers from giving birth at home attended by a midwife …
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. Using 2000-2014 Health and Retirement Survey - Medicare linked data, we leveraged within-individual variation in a …
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Decision-making in the realm of health behaviors, such as smoking or drinking, is influenced both by biological factors, such as genetic predispositions, as well as environmental factors, such as financial liquidity and health insurance status. We show how the choice of smoking after a...
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created at age 65 through the qualification for Medicare. Using a novel procedure for identifying age in months from matched … evidence that job mobility increases at the age 65 threshold when Medicare eligibility starts. We also do not find evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884227