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pre-ACA and in states with different Medicaid expansion decisions across time to investigate changes in enrollment in … more between high- and low-uninsurance counties in states that expanded Medicaid relative to states that didn't, with … Medicaid. Differential enrollment is flat for all other comparable college types. We find this differential increase in less …
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Did Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act affect the course of the COVID-19 pandemic? We answer this … question using a regression discontinuity design for counties near the borders of states that expanded Medicaid with states … that did not. Relevant covariates change continuously across the Medicaid expansion frontier. We find that 1) health …
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I consider changes in labor markets across U.S. states and counties around the enactment of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 and its implementation in 2014. I find that counties with large fractions of uninsured (and therefore a large exposure to the ACA) before the enactment or the...
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We use a five percent sample of Americans' credit bureau data to study the effects of public health insurance on the geography of consumer financial health. Exploiting the nearly universal eligibility for Medicare at age 65, we find a 30 percent reduction in the level of debts in collections...
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This study examines the determinants of CEO compensation using data from a nationally representative sample of privately held U.S. corporations. We find that (i) the pay-size elasticity is much larger for privately held firms than for the publicly traded firms on which previous research has...
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This paper examines the impact of vouchers in general and voucher design in particular on public school performance. It argues that all voucher programs are not created equal. There are often fundamental differences in voucher designs that affect public school incentives differently and induce...
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In this paper, we provide an overview of the subprime mortgage securitization process and the seven key informational frictions that arise. We discuss the ways that market participants work to minimize these frictions and speculate on how this process broke down. We continue with a complete...
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We track 38,000 money market trades from execution to delivery and return to provide a first empirical analysis of settlement delays in financial markets. In line with predictions from recent models showing that financial claims are settled strategically, we document a tendency by lenders to...
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