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French, Eric; Jones, John Bailey; McGee, Rory - 2022

Retired households, especially those with high lifetime income, decumulate their wealth very slowly, and many die leaving large estates. The three leading explanations for the 'retirement savings puzzle' are the desire to insure against uncertain lifespans and medical expenses, the desire to...

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The effect of the patient protection and affordable care act medicaid expansions on financial wellbeing

Hu, Luojia; Kaestner, Robert; Mazumder, Bhashkar; … - 2016

We examine the effect of the Medicaid expansions under the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) on consumer, financial outcomes using data from a major credit reporting agency for a large, national sample of adults. We employ the synthetic control method to compare individuals...

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Estimating the welfare costs of very high inflations and hyperinflations

Benati, Luca; Nicolini, Juan Pablo - 2024

We explore the welfare costs of inflation originating from lack of liquidity satiation for Weimar Republic's hyperinflation and three high-inflation countries. Towards the peak of Weimar's hyperinflation the costs are estimated to have been equal to nearly 20 per cent of income. For Israel,...

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Spillovers from conditional cash transfer programs: Bolsa Família and crime in urban Brazil

Chioda, Laura; de Mello, João M. P.; Soares, Rodrigo R. - 2012

This paper investigates the impact of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs on crime. Making use of a unique dataset … combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we … estimate the contemporaneous effect of the Bolsa Família program on crime. We address the endogeneity of CCT coverage by …

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The Effectiveness of Health Screening

Hackl, Franz; Halla, Martin; Hummer, Michael; Pruckner, … - 2012

Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health-screening program on individuals' health status and health care cost. To account for selection into treatment, we used regional variations in the intensity of exposure to supply-determined...

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The effectiveness of health screening

Hackl, Franz; Halla, Martin; Hummer, Michael; Pruckner, … - 2012

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On the rise of health spending and longevity

Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Galama, Titus; … - 2009

We use a calibrated stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and life expectancy over the period 1965-2005. We estimate that technological change along with the increase in the...

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Estimating the causal effect of gun prevalence on homicide rates: a local average treatment effect approach

Kovandzic, Tomislav; Schaffer, Mark E. - 2008

This paper uses a local average treatment effect (LATE) framework in an attempt to disentangle the separate effects of criminal and noncriminal gun prevalence on violence rates. We first show that a number of previous studies have failed to properly address the problems of endogeneity, proxy...

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How much can we trust causal interpretations of fixed-effects estimators in the context of criminality?

Bjerk, David - 2009

Researchers are often interested in estimating the causal effect of some treatment on individual criminality. For example, two recent relatively prominent papers have attempted to estimate the respective direct effects of marriage and gang participation on individual criminal activity. One...

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Re-examining the impact of dropping out on criminal and labor outcomes in early adulthood

Bjerk, David - 2011

This paper shows that while high school dropouts fare far worse on average than otherwise similar high school completers in early adulthood outcomes such as success in the labor market and future criminal activity, there are important differences within this group of dropouts. Notably, those who...

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