Grumstrup, Ethan; Hossain, Md. Mobarak; Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - 2019
In this paper, we examine whether the expansion of health insurance coverage brought on by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA), led to a decline in absenteeism among overweight and obese individuals. We use data from the National Health Insurance Survey (NHIS) to compare...