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The Impact of the Affordable Care Act Young Adult Provision on Childbearing, Marriage, and Tax Filing Behavior : Evidence from Tax Data
Heim, Bradley - 2017
We use panel U.S. tax data spanning 2008-2013 to study the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) young adult provision on two important demographic outcomes—childbearing and marriage. The impact on childbearing is theoretically ambiguous, as gaining insurance may increase access to...
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Effects of the Affordable Care Act Dependent Coverage Mandate on Health Insurance Coverage for Individuals in Same-Sex Couples
Carpenter, Christopher S.; Gonzales, Gilbert; McKay, Tara; … - 2022
and age groups. Effects for women in same-sex couples and men in different-sex couples are smaller than the associated …
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Health Insurance and the Boomerang Generation : Did the 2010 ACA Dependent Care Provision Affect Geographic Mobility and Living Arrangements Among Young Adults?
Chatterji, Pinka - 2017
We test whether the ACA dependent care provision is associated with young adults' propensity to live with/near parents and to receive food assistance. Data come from the 2008 Survey of Income and Program Participation. Findings indicate that the provision is associated with a 3.0 percentage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012949419
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A World of Cities : The Causes and Consequences of Urbanization in Poorer Countries
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2013
Historically, urban growth required enough development to grow and transport significant agricultural surpluses or a government effective enough to build an empire. But there has been an explosion of poor mega-cities over the last thirty years. A simple urban model illustrates that in closed...
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Global Experiences on Expanding Services to the Urban Poor
World Bank Group - 2009
In 2006-07, the Water and Sanitation Program-South Asia (WSP-SA) initiated a research toidentify barriers to service delivery for the urban poor. The research included a review ofvarious initiatives from across the globe that have resulted in improved service delivery for theurban poor and...
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Livable Cities for the 21st Century : The Post Habitat II Agenda for the World Bank
Wolfensohn, James D. - 1997
Habitat II, the second United Nations conference on human settlements, also known as the "City Summit," concluded its work on June 14, 1996, in Istanbul. Habitat II indelibly marked the increasingly urban nature of the world and the urgency, extent, and increasing size of problems facing people...
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Estimating the Impact of Means-Tested Subsidies Under Treatment Externalities with Application to Anti-Malarial Bednets
Bhattacharya, Debopam - 2013
experimental data from Kenya where subsidies were randomized, coupled with GPS-based location information, we show how to estimate …
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Income Changes and Intimate Partner Violence : Evidence from Unconditional Cash Transfers in Kenya
Haushofer, Johannes - 2019
Kenya (Haushofer and Shapiro 2016). Here we report detailed impacts of these transfers on physical and sexual intimate … partner violence, and construct a theory to explain them. Transfers to women averaging USD 709 reduced physical and sexual …: physical violence towards non-recipient women in treatment villages decreased (-0:16 SD). We show theoretically that transfers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012890487
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Twenty Year Economic Impacts of Deworming
Hicks, Joan Hamory - 2020
This study exploits a randomized school health intervention that provided deworming treatment to Kenyan children and utilizes longitudinal data to estimate impacts on economic outcomes up to 20 years later. The effective respondent tracking rate was 84%. Individuals who received 2 to 3...
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General Equilibrium Effects of Cash Transfers : Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Egger, Dennis - 2019
653 randomized villages in rural Kenya. The implied fiscal shock was over 15 percent of local GDP. We find large impacts …
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