A large literature examines the effect of health insurance on mortality. We add to this literature by emphasizing two challenges in using quasi-experimental variation provided by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage expansions to study mortality. The first is non-parallel pre-treatment trends....

This Appendix contains additional methods details and results for Black, Hollingsworth, Nunes, and Simon, The Effect of Health Insurance on Mortality: Power Analysis and What Can We Learn from the Affordable Care Act Coverage Expansions? (working paper 2018), at...

A large literature examines the effect of health insurance on mortality. We contribute by emphasizing two challenges in using the Affordable Care Act (ACA)'s quasi-experimental variation to study mortality. The first is non-parallel pretreatment trends. Rising mortality in Medicaid non-expansion...

This Online Appendix provides sample and methodology details and selected additional results for Barreto Parra, Atanasov, Whittle, Meurer, Luo, Zhang, and Black, The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Elderly: Population Fatality Rates, COVID Mortality Percentage and Life Expectancy loss....

Abstract for Appendix: This appendix presents additional results to accompany the underlying article, Black, Espin-Sanchez, French, and Litvak (2016), The Long-Term Effect of Health Insurance on Near-Elderly Health and Mortality.The underlying article is available on SSRN at...

The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected the elderly. This article provides a detailed analysis of those effects, drawing primarily on individual-level mortality data covering almost three million persons aged 65+ in three Midwest states (Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin). We report...

This Appendix provides data and methodology details and additional results for Zhang, Atanasov, Meurer, Whittle, Barreto Parra, and Black, Effects of Short-Term Air Pollution Exposure on U.S. COVID-19 Mortality (working paper 2022). The underlying paper is available from SSRN at...

ImportancePrior studies have shown that long-term exposure to air pollution predicts higher COVID-19 mortality, but there is limited evidence on the effect of short-term fluctuations in air pollution levels. ObjectiveTo determine whether short-term changes in county air-pollution levels predict...

This Appendix provides methodology details and additional results for The COVID-19 Pandemic, Years of Life Lost, and Life Expectancy: Decomposition Using Individual-Level Mortality Data. The data on COVID deaths underlying this Appendix is generally current through September 30, 2021. We expect...