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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...
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Effects of the Affordable Care Act on health behaviors after three years
Courtemanche, Charles; Marton, James; Ukert, Benjamin; … - 2018
utilization along several dimensions, but also increased risky drinking. These results are driven by the private portions of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011845580
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More than a ban on smoking? : behavioural spillovers of smoking bans in the workplace
Costa-Font, Joan; Salmasi, Luca; Zaccagni, Sarah - 2022
Are workplace smoking bans (WSBs) more than a ban on smoking? We study whether WSBs influence smoking cessation and … bans. Drawing upon quasi-experimental evidence from Russia, which introduced a WSB (in addition to a ban on smoking in … findings. First, unlike previous studies that focus on smoking bans in public places, we find robust evidence that WSBs …
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More than a ban on smoking? : behavioural spillovers of smoking bans in the workplace
Costa-Font, Joan; Salmasi, Luca; Zaccagni, Sarah - 2021
Are workplace smoking bans (WSBs) more than a ban on smoking? We study whether WSBs influence smoking cessation and …), which introduced a WBS (in addition to a smoking ban on public places), and adopting a difference-in-differences (DiD … the ban in public places), we document three sets of findings. First, unlike previous studies (focusing on smoking bans in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517175
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More than a ban on smoking? : behavioural spillovers of smoking bans in the workplace
Costa-Font, Joan; Salmasi, Luca; Zaccagni, Sarah - 2022
Are workplace smoking bans (WSBs) more than a ban on smoking? We study whether WSBs influence smoking cessation and … bans. Drawing upon quasi-experimental evidence from Russia, which introduced a WSB (in addition to a ban on smoking in … findings. First, unlike previous studies that focus on smoking bans in public places, we find robust evidence that WSBs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013361515
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Effects of the Affordable Care Act on health behaviors after three years
Courtemanche, Charles; Marton, James; Ukert, Benjamin; … - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011846392
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The Effect of Violence on Birth Outcomes : Evidence from Homicides in Rural Brazil
Koppensteiner, Martin Foureaux - 2013
This paper uses microdata from Brazilian vital statistics natality and mortality data between 2000 and 2010 to estimate the impact of in-utero exposure to local violence -measured by homicide rates- on birth outcomes. Focusing on small communities, where it is more plausible that local homicide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071730
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Did the affordable care act affect access to medications for opioid use disorder among the already insured? : evidence from the Rhode Island all-payer claims database
Burke, Mary A.; Carman, Katherine Grace; Sullivan, Riley; … - 2021 - This version: October 2021
Previous research suggests that state Medicaid expansions implemented under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) helped large numbers of patients suffering from opioid use disorder (OUD) gain access to life-saving medications, including buprenorphine. However, Medicaid expansions...
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Income gradient of pharmaceutical panic buying at the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic
Elek, Petér S.; Bíró, Anikó; Fadgyas-Freyler, Petra - 2021
We analyse the timing, magnitude and income dependence of pharmaceutical panic buying around the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Hungary. We use district-level monthly and daily administrative data on detailed categories of pharmaceutical purchases, merge them to income statistics and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012546549
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The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on socioeconomic inequality in psychological distress in the UK: an update
Gao, Xiaoying; Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2021
This paper extends the earlier work of Davillas and Jones (2021) on socioeconomic inequality in mental health, measured by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), to include the second national lockdown up to March 2021.
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