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Early effects of the Affordable Care Act on health care access, risky health behaviors, and self-assessed health
Courtemanche, Charles; Marton, James; Ukert, Benjamin; … - 2017
The goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to achieve nearly universal health insurance coverage through a combination of mandates, subsidies, marketplaces, and Medicaid expansions, most of which took effect in 2014. We use data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631585
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The impact of the minimum wage on health
Andreyeva, Elena; Ukert, Benjamin - In: International journal of health economics and management 18 (2018) 4, pp. 337-375
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012025926
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The short- and long-run effects of smoking cessation on alcohol consumption
Ukert, Benjamin - In: International journal of health economics and management 17 (2017) 4, pp. 495-519
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011814187
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Spillover effects of drug safety warnings on health behavior
Daysal, N. Meltem; Orsini, Chiara - 2012
We examine the impact of new medical information on drug safety on preventive health behavior. We exploit the release of the findings of the Women's Health Initiative Study (WHIS) - the largest randomized controlled trial of women's health - which demonstrated in 2002 that long-term Hormone...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534063
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Communication problems? : the role of parent-child communication for the subsequent health behavior of adolescents
Avdic, Daniel; Büyükdurmus, Tugba - 2015
reduces the smoking prevalence of adolescents by as much as 70%, irrespective of social background. More complex relationships …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519179
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Alcohol consumption and harmful drinking : trends and social disparities across OECD countries
Devaux, Marion; Sassi, Franco - 2015
illustrates trends and social disparities in alcohol consumption and harmful drinking in 20 OECD countries. Analyses are based on … taking up harmful drinking. Women with high education and high socio-economic status are more likely to engage in harmful … drinking than their less educated and less well-off counterparts, while the opposite is observed in men. Levels and patterns of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281249
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Child and adolescent obesity in Ireland : a longitudinal perspective
Madden, David - 2016
This paper examines developments in childhood and adolescent obesity in Ireland using two waves of the Growing Up in Ireland survey. Obesity appears to level off between the two waves though there is tentative evidence that the socioeconomic gradient, measured with respect to maternal education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515575
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Returns to education : the causal effects of education on earnings, health and smoking
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Veramendi, Gregory - 2016
This paper estimates returns to education using a dynamic model of educational choice that synthesizes approaches in the structural dynamic discrete choice literature with approaches used in the reduced form treatment effect literature. It is an empirically robust middle ground between the two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476582
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Spillover Effects of Drug Safety Warnings on Health Behavior
Daysal, N. Meltem - 2012
We examine the impact of new medical information on drug safety on preventive health behavior. We exploit the release of the findings of the Women's Health Initiative Study (WHIS) – the largest randomized controlled trial of women's health – which demonstrated in 2002 that long-term Hormone...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108630
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Obesity and Health-Related Decisions : An Empirical Model of The Determinants of Weight Status
Morales, Leonardo Fabio - 2014
-recognized endogenous factors mentioned in the literature as obesity determinants, i.e., physical activity, smoking, a proxy for food …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043219