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Did the ACA Medicaid Expansion Save Lives?

Borgschulte, Mark; Vogler, Jacob - 2019

We estimate the effect of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion on county-level mortality in the first four years following expansion. We find a reduction in all-cause mortality in ages 20 to 64 equaling 11.36 deaths per 100,000 individuals, a 3.6 percent decrease. This estimate is largely...

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Stable Income, Stable Family

Lindo, Jason M.; Regmi, Krishna; Swensen, Isaac D. - 2022

We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy that leverages state-level changes in maximum benefits over time and comparisons across workers who have been laid off and those that have not been laid off. The results indicate...

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Child Poverty in English-Speaking Countries

Micklewright, John - 2004

The paper considers child poverty in rich English-speaking countries – the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and Ireland. Do all these countries really stand out from other OECD countries for their levels of child poverty, as is sometimes assumed? And what policies have they adopted...

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The impact of tax and transfer systems on children in the European Union

Corak, Miles; Lietz, Christine; Sutherland, Holly - 2005

The objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of fiscal policy on the economic resources available to children … groups, and in particular to what degree do cash transfer and tax systems benefit children relative to older groups? Second …, what fractions of the needs of children are supported by elements of the tax and transfer systems directed explicitly to …

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Principles and practicalities for measuring child poverty in the rich countries

Corak, Miles - 2005

. This involves a method for embodying the ideal of children having priority on social resources into a particular set of …

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Child poverty and changes in child poverty in rich countries since 1990

Chen, Wen-Hao; Corak, Miles - 2005

This paper documents levels and changes in child poverty rates in 12 OECD countries using data from the Luxembourg Income Study project, and focusing upon an analysis of the reasons for changes over the 1990s. The objective is to uncover the relative role of income transfers from the state in...

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Intergenerational earnings mobility among the children of Canadian immigrants

Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Chen, Wen-Hao; Corak, Miles - 2006

portrait of the Canadian population is offered as are estimates of the degree of generational mobility among the children of …

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Integrating Social Insurance and Social Assistance Programs for the Future World of Labor

Palacios, Robert; Robalino, David A. - 2020

Given the prevalence of informal labor, most countries have combined contributory social insurance programs (pensions, unemployment benefits, and health insurance), with non-contributory insurance programs and several types of "safety nets." All of these programs involve different types of...

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Impacts of Home-Care Subsidies: Evidence from Quasi-Random Assignment

Ofek-Shanny, Yuval; Strulov-Shlain, Avner; Zeltzer, Dan - 2023

working-age children. We use administrative data from Israel on the universe of welfare benefit applications linked with tax … records of applicants and their adult children. To address the endogeneity of benefit recipients' health status, we instrument … of their children. The results are consistent with the crowd-out of self-care for the marginal recipient, highlighting …

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Does Delay Cause Decay? The Effect of Administrative Decision Time on the Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Disability Applicants

Autor, David; Maestas, Nicole; Mullen, Kathleen; … - 2015

This paper measures the causal effect of time out of the labor force on subsequent employment of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) applicants and distinguishes it from the discouragement effect of receiving disability benefits. Using a unique Social Security Administration workload...

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