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Can helping the sick hurt the able? Incentives, information and disruption in a disability-related welfare reform

Bagaria, Nitika; Petrongolo, Barbara; Van Reenen, John - 2015

Disability rolls have escalated in developed nations over the last 40 years. The UK, however, stands out because the numbers on these benefits stopped rising when a welfare reform was introduced that integrated disability benefits with unemployment insurance (UI). This policy reform improved job...

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Hospitals and the generic versus brand-name prescription decision in the outpatient sector

Pruckner, Gerald J.; Schober, Thomas - 2016

Healthcare payers try to reduce costs by promoting the use of cheaper generic drugs. We show strong interrelations in drug prescriptions between the inpatient and outpatient sectors by using a large administrative dataset from Austria. Patients with prior hospital visits have a significantly...

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Public health insurance of children and parental labor market outcomes

Kunze, Konstantin - 2022

This paper exploits variation resulting from a series of federal and state Medicaid expansions between 1979 and 2014 to estimate the effects of child's access to public health insurance on labor market outcomes of parents. The results imply that extended Medicaid eligibility of children leads to...

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Medicaid-ing uninsurance? The impact of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion on uninsurance spells

Heim, Bradley T.; Lurie, Ithai; Patel, Elena; Ramnath, … - 2023

We study the effect of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion on coverage dynamics following the sudden loss of coverage from an employer plan. This analysis leverages novel administrative data capturing monthly health insurance coverage for the U.S. population. Using these data, we...

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Financing elderly care in Italy and Europe. Is there a common vision?

Brenna, Elenka; Gitto, Lara - 2016

There is a general consensus in considering the public financing for LTC as a suitable proxy of the resources committed … financing on elderly care in Italy and, in particular, in Lombardy, both in terms of organizational level (central …/regional/local) and governmental responsibility (Welfare/Social Department). Quantitative data on the financing of elderly care is drawn …

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Does prescribing appropriateness reduce health expenditures? Main effects and unintended outcomes

Lucifora, Claudio; Russo, Antonio; Vigani, Daria - 2021

We evaluate the effectiveness of a reform to contain health-care costs by restraining general practitioners' (GP) ability to prescribe outpatient treatments, on the basis of strict appropriateness criteria. Using register data for a large Metropolitan area in Italy, we find a significant...

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Incentive and spill-over effects of supplementary sickness compensation

Hesselius, Patrik; Persson, Malin - 2007

In 1998 the Swedish national sickness insurance policy changed to allow additional compensation from e.g. collective agreements after the 90th day of absence without a reduction of the public sickness benefit. We estimate the effects of this policy change on the duration of sickness absence for...

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Substitution between temporary parental leave and sickness absence

Persson, Malin - 2011

This paper studies interrelations between two benefits in the Swedish social insurance system: the sickness insurance and the temporary parental benefit. The level of compensation differs between the two benefits creating an economic incentive for parents to claim temporary parental benefit when...

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Distributive politics inside the city? The political economy of Spain's plan E

Carozzi, Felipe; Repetto, Luca - 2016

We study the allocation of investment projects by municipal governments across groups of voters using data from a fiscal stimulus program carried out in Spain between 2009 and 2011. This program provided municipalities with a large endowment to spend in public investments and required the...

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Ethnic fragmentation and police spending: social identity and a public good

Ajilore, Olugbenga; Smith, John - 2007

We present evidence that more ethnically fragmented communities spend, all else equal, more on police services than less fragmented communities. We introduce a model of spending on police services which we use to interpret the data. In this model, we assume that the decision to commit a crime is...

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