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Access to Health Insurance and the Use of Inpatient Medical Care : Evidence from the Affordable Care Act Young Adult Mandate
Akosa Antwi, Yaa - 2014
The Affordable Care Act of 2010 expanded coverage to young adults by allowing them to remain on their parent's private health insurance until they turn 26 years old. While there is evidence on insurance effects, we know very little about use of general or specific forms of medical care. We study...
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Reducing Crime and Violence : Experimental Evidence from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Liberia
Blattman, Christopher - 2015
We show that a number of “noncognitive” skills and preferences, including patience and identity, are malleable in adults, and that investments in them reduce crime and violence. We recruited criminally-engaged men and randomized half to eight weeks of cognitive behavioral therapy designed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022163
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What Good are Treatment Effects Without Treatment? Mental Health and the Reluctance to Use Talk Therapy
Cronin, Christopher; Forsstrom, Matthew; Papageorge, … - 2022
Mounting evidence across disciplines shows that psychotherapy is more curative than antidepressants for mild-to-moderate depression and anxiety. Yet, few patients use it. This paper develops and estimates a structural model of dynamic decision-making to analyze mental health treatment choices in...
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Mental Health Therapy as a Core Strategy for Increasing Human Capital : Evidence from Ghana
Barker, Nathan; Bryan, Gharad; Karlan, Dean; … - 2023
We study the impact of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for individuals selected from the general population of poor households in rural Ghana. Results from 2-3 months after a randomized intervention show strong impacts on mental and physical health, cognitive and socioemotional skills, and...
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Office-Based Mental Healthcare and Juvenile Arrests
Deza, Monica; Lu, Thanh; Maclean, Catherine - 2023
We estimate the effect of local access to office-based mental healthcare on juvenile arrest outcomes. We leverage variation in the number of mental healthcare offices within a county over the period 1999 to 2016 in a two-way fixed-effects model. Office-based treatment is the most common modality...
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Public Audit Oversight and Reporting Credibility : Evidence from the PCAOB Inspection Regime
Gipper, Brandon - 2015
This paper studies the impact of public audit oversight on financial reporting credibility. We analyze changes in … market responses to earnings news after public audit oversight is introduced, exploiting that the regime onset depends on … news following public audit oversight. Corroborating these findings, we find an increase in volume responses to 10-K …
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On the Economics of Audit Partner Tenure and Rotation : Evidence from PCAOB Data
Gipper, Brandon - 2017
firms over an extended period. We analyze the effects on audit quality as well as economic tradeoffs related to partner … tenure and rotation with respect to audit hours and fees. On average, we find no evidence for audit quality declines over the … economic consequences. We find increases in audit fees and decreases in audit hours over the tenure cycle, which differ by …
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Continuing Dangers of Disinformation in Corporate Accounting Reports
Kane, Edward J. - 2009
firms are not obliged to express reservations they may have about the fundamental accuracy of the reports they audit. This …
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The Effects of EITC Correspondence Audits on Low-Income Earners
Guyton, John - 2018
exploits the random variation arising from certain aspects of the audit selection process to estimate the impacts of these EITC …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922974
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Bank Examiners’ Information and Expertise and Their Role in Monitoring and Disciplining Banks Before and During the Panic of 1893
Calomiris, Charles W. - 2018
We examine whether examiners were informed and contributed to the health of the banking sector. Information included quantitative information that was eventually made public, quantitative information that remained private, and subjective information dependent on the examiner's production of...
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