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This paper presents data on health insurance coverage in California in 2013 and 2014, based on the March 2014 and 2015 … health insurance coverage trends in California, recently published in the California Health Care Foundation’s California … Health Care Almanac, and supported by the California Health Care Foundation, based in Oakland, CA. Because 2014 is the first …
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Epidemics invite “pariah-tization.” By this, I mean the process of stigmatizing one marginalized and impotent segment of society as being the group most vulnerable to the disease at hand- without reliable scientific basis. Doing so allows those in power, the young, the rich, the...
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The effectiveness of the state policies providing incentives for vaccination to curb the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is hotly contested, and evidence from the literature remains inconclusive. This study presents evidence from a natural experiment on the effects of the U.S....
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This paper analyzes health consequences of forced civilian displacement that occurred during the war in Croatia 1991 …-1995 which accompanied the demise of Yugoslavia. Using the Croatian Adult Health Survey 2003 we test whether displacement is … relevant in explaining various dimensions of measured and self-assessed health. We adopt an instrumental variable approach …
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This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort …-in-Differences approach. The analysis is based on official records covering all individuals insured by the public health system in Germany and …-dimensionality in these health effects. The empirical findings reflect the multi-dimensionality but allow for deriving two broader …
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supply, but very little is known about how the minimum wage affects health, including children's health. We address this … health. Using data on the entire universe of births in the US over 25 years, we find that an increase in the minimum wage is …, which are some channels through which minimum wage can affect infant health. Labor market policies that enhance wages can …
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sparse information exists regarding the impact these smoking bans at the state and local levels have on the health of … children and infants. A rationale for expansion of smoke-free laws implicitly presumes that potential public health gains from … bans impact the venue of smoking, and the health of children and infants. Using models that exploit state- and county …
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population groups. Our review suggests that vulnerable workers were at more health risks than the general population. The … fatality rate that rivals those of richer countries with far larger spending on health. We offer an early review of the … emerging literatures in public health and economics on the pandemic effects in Vietnam, with a specific focus on vulnerable …
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Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health … status at any point in time, we do not recommend a general health-screening program. However, given that we found some …-screening program on individuals' health status and health care cost. To account for selection into treatment, we used regional …
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Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health … status at any point in time, we do not recommend a general health-screening program. However, given that we found some …-screening program on individuals' health status and health care cost. To account for selection into treatment, we used regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530136