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Ehrlich, Isaac; Yin, Yong - 2012

The problem of the uninsured - those eschewing the purchase of health insurance policies - cannot be fully understood without considering informal alternatives to market insurance called self-insurance and self-protection, including the publicly and charitably-financed safety-net health care...

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Community-Based Health Insurance and Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Spending in Africa: Evidence from Rwanda

Woldemichael, Andinet; Gurara, Daniel Zerfu; Shimeles, Abebe - 2016

In the absence of third party and prepayment systems such as health insurance and tax-based healthcare financing, households in many low-income countries are exposed to the financial risks of paying large medical bills from out-of-pocket. In recent years, community based health insurance schemes...

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Employment-contingent health insurance, illness, and labor supply of women: evidence from married women with breast cancer

Bradley, Cathy J.; Neumark, David; Luo, Zhehui; … - 2005

We examine the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on married women's labor supply following a health shock. First, we develop a theoretical model that examines the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on the labor supply response to a health shock, to clarify under...

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Race, ethnicity and the dynamics of health insurance coverage

Fairlie, Robert W.; London, Rebecca A. - 2008

Using matched data from the 1996 to 2004 Current Population Survey (CPS), we examine racial patterns in annual transitions into and out of health insurance coverage. We first decompose racial differences in static health insurance coverage rates into group differences in transition rates into...

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New evidence on the motherhood wage gap

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Kimmel, Jean - 2008

to account for the self-selection and, thus, endogeneity of having an employment-based health insurance offer. We find … that, once the endogeneity of having an employment-based health insurance offer is accounted for, the motherhood wage gap …

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The effect of an employer health insurance mandate on health insurance coverage and the demand for labor: evidence from Hawaii

Buchmueller, Thomas C.; DiNardo, John; Valletta, Robert G. - 2009

Over the past few decades, policy makers have considered employer mandates as a strategy for stemming the tide of declining health insurance coverage. In this paper we examine the long term effects of the only employer health insurance mandate that has ever been enforced in the United States,...

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Self-employment and the role of health insurance

Gumus, Gulcin; Regan, Tracy L. - 2009

We investigate the effect of health insurance on labor market transitions in and out of self-employment as well as on the likelihood of being self-employed. We consider the role of individual health insurance coverage along with that from a spouse. Next, we examine a series of tax deductions...

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The impact of the macroeconomy on health insurance coverage: Evidence from the great recession

Cawley, John; Moriya, Asako S.; Simon, Kosali - 2011

This paper investigates the impact of the macroeconomy on the health insurance coverage of Americans using panel data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) for 2004-2010, a period that includes the Great Recession of 2007-09. We find that a one percentage point increase in...

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Impact of China's urban resident basic medical insurance on health care utilization and expenditure

Liu, Hong; Zhao, Zhong - 2012

. We estimate the impact of this program on health care utilization and expenditure using 2006 and 2009 waves of the China … Health and Nutrition Survey. We find that this program has significantly increased the utilization of formal medical services …. We also find that this program has improved medical care utilization more for the elderly, for the low- and middle …

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The rise in obesity across the Atlantic: an economic perspective

Brunello, Giorgio; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; … - 2008

We provide comparable evidence on the patterns and trends in obesity across the Atlantic and analyse whether there are economic rationales for public intervention to control obesity. We take into account equity issues as well as efficiency considerations, which are organized around three...

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