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A Median Voter Model of Health Insurance with Ex Post Moral Hazard

Jacob, Johanna; Lundin, Douglas - 2001

One of the main features of health insurance is moral hazard, as defined by Pauly (1968); people face incentives for excess utilization of medical care since they do not pay the full marginal cost for provision. To mitigate the moral hazard problem, a coinsurance can be included in the insurance...

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The dependence of health insurance availability on years left before Medicare

Bayindir, Esra Eren; Gurdal, Mehmet Yigit; Sağlam, Ismail - 2011

We study the dependence of health insurance availability of near-elderly inpatients in the United States with respect to their ages. We show that the likelihood that near-elderly inpatients are uninsured continuously declines until the early ages of 60 but the trend is reversed for the last few...

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Health insurance for the poor in India

Ahuja, Rajeev - 2004

Community based health insurance (CBHI) is more suited than alternate arrangements to providing health insurance to the low-income people living in developing countries. The universal health insurance scheme, launched recently by the Prime Minister of India, is only one of the forms that CBHI...

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Sick of Being Unemployed? Interactions Between Unemployment and Sickness Insurance in Sweden

Larsson, Laura - 2002

insurance (SI), two important components of Sweden's social insurance system. There are two main topics of interest: how the …

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Can sickness absence be affected by information meetings? Evidence from a social experiment

Johansson, Per; Lindahl, Erica - 2010

During the last decade several empirical studies have stressed the importance of norms and social interactions for explaining sickness absence behavior. In this context public discussions about the intentions of the insurance, and of the rights and duties of the receivers, may be important for...

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Putting teenagers on the pill: The consequences of subsidized contraception

Grönqvist, Hans - 2009

This paper investigates the consequences of a series of Swedish policy changes beginning in 1989 where different regions started subsidizing the birth control pill. The reforms were significant and applied to all types of oral contraceptives. My identification strategy takes advantage of the...

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The intergenerational effects of parental incarceration

Dobbie, Will; Grönqvist, Hans; Niknami, Susan; Palme, … - 2019

administrative data from Sweden. Our empirical strategy exploits exogenous varia-tion in parental incarceration from the random …

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Swedish children and youth during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from research on childhood environment, schooling, educational choice and labour market entry

Engdahl, Mattias; Hall, Caroline King Barnard; … - 2021

and discusses possible consequences of the ongoing pandemic for Swedish children and youth, in the short and longer term … negative consequences for many children and young adults. Children and youth from disadvantaged environments, with a weak socio … provide services for children and youth. Moreover, the education system has an important task in compensating for shortcomings …

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When strong ties are strong: Networks and youth labor market entry

Kramarz, Francis; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2011

The conditions under which young workers find their first real post-graduation jobs are both very important for the young's future careers and insufficiently known given their public policy implications. To study these conditions, and in particular the role played by networks, we use a Swedish...

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Caroline Hall: Lessons from an expansion of upper secondary schooling

Grönqvist, Hans; Hall, Caroline - 2011

This paper studies effects of education policy on early fertility. We study a major educational reform in Sweden in …

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