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Social security and elderly living arrangements
Engelhardt, Gary V.; Gruber, Jonathan; Perry, Cynthia D. - 2002
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Health insurance for poor women and children in the US : lessons from the past decade
Gruber, Jonathan - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000613959
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Covering the uninsured in the US
Gruber, Jonathan - 2008
"One of the major social policy issues facing the U.S. in the first decade of the 21st century is the large number of Americans lacking health insurance. This article surveys the major economic issues around covering the uninsured. I review the facts on insurance coverage and the nature of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003640789
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Social security and the evolution of elderly poverty
Engelhardt, Gary V.; Gruber, Jonathan - 2004
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Social Security and Elderly Living Arrangements
Engelhardt, Gary V. - 2002
One of the most important economic decisions facing the elderly, and their families, is whether to live independently. A number of previous studies suggest that widows are fairly responsive to Social Security benefits in deciding whether to live independently. But these previous studies have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469803
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Spousal Labor Supply as Insurance : Does Unemployment Insurance Crowd Outthe Added Worker Effect?
Gruber, Jonathan - 1996
would only make up a small share of the associated reduction in family income. We also find evidence that families are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473237
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Covering the Uninsured in the U.S
Gruber, Jonathan - 2008
One of the major social policy issues facing the U.S. in the first decade of the 21st century is the large number of Americans lacking health insurance. This article surveys the major economic issues around covering the uninsured. I review the facts on insurance coverage and the nature of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464889
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Social Security and the Evolution of Elderly Poverty
Engelhardt, Gary V. - 2004
We use data from the March 1968-2001 Current Population Surveys to document the evolution of elderly poverty over this … time period, and to assess the causal role of the Social Security program in reducing poverty rates. We develop an … elderly poverty. Our findings suggest that over all elderly families the elasticity of poverty to benefits is roughly unitary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468227
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Health Insurance for Poor Women and Children in the U.S : Lessons from the Past Decade
Gruber, Jonathan - 1996
to low income women and children, has expanded dramatically over the past decade. This expansion provides a `natural laboratory' for learning about the effect of public health insurance eligibility on insurance coverage, health utilization, and health outcomes. This paper provides an overview of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472997
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The Impact of Patient Cost-Sharing on the Poor : Evidence from Massachusetts
Chandra, Amitabh - 2012
Greater patient cost-sharing could help reduce the fiscal pressures associated with insurance expansion by reducing the scope for moral hazard. But it is possible that low-income recipients are unable to cut back on utilization wisely and that, as a result, higher cost-sharing will lead to worse...
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