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It's about time : effects of the affordable care act dependent coverage mandate on time use
Colman, Gregory; Dave, Dhaval - 2016
One of the main purposes of recent healthcare reform (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - ACA) in the U.S. is to enable Americans to make more productive use of their time. We examine how the ACA's dependent care coverage mandate (DCM) affected young adults' time allocation. Based on...
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The geography of pandemic containment
Giannone, Elisa; Paixão, Nuno; Pang, Xinle - 2021 - Last updated: June 10, 2021
How does interconnectedness affect the course of a pandemic? What are the optimal withinand between-state containment policies? We embed a spatial SIR model into a multi-sector quantitative trade model. We calibrate it to US states and the COVID-19 pandemic and find that interconnectedness...
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Rationing Medicine Through Bureaucracy : Authorization Restrictions in Medicare
Brot-Goldberg, Zarek C.; Burn, Samantha; Layton, Timothy; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
High administrative costs in U.S. health care have provoked concern among policymakers over potential waste, but many of these costs are generated by managed care policies that trade off bureaucratic costs against reductions in moral hazard. We study this trade-off for prior authorization...
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ACA Medicaid Expansions and Maternal Morbidity
Chatterji, Pinka; Glenn, Hanna; Markowitz, Sara; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In this paper, we test whether the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansions are associated with in-hospital maternal morbidity. The ACA expansions may have affected maternal morbidity by increasing pre-conception access to health care, and by improving the quality of delivery care through...
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Monitoring for Waste : Evidence from Medicare Audits
Shi, Maggie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper examines the tradeoffs of monitoring for wasteful public spending. By penalizing unnecessary spending, monitoring improves the quality of public expenditure and incentivizes firms to invest in compliance technology. I study a large Medicare program that monitored for unnecessary...
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Incentives and Habit Formation in Health Screenings : Evidence from the Illinois Workplace Wellness Study
Jones, Damon; Molitor, David; Reif, Julian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study habit formation in annual biometric health screenings using a field experiment that randomly assigned financial incentives to 4,799 employees over three years. Completing the first screening raised subsequent screenings by 32.4-36.0 percentage points (84%-90%) annually. Habit formation...
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Race, social class, and bulimia nervosa
Sovinsky, Michelle; Ham, John C.; Iorio, Daniela - 2011
In this paper we explore a serious eating disorder, bulimia nervosa (BN), which afflicts a surprising number of girls in the US. We challenge the long-held belief that BN primarily affects high income White teenagers, using a unique data set on adolescent females evaluated regarding their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310088
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How bulimia nervosa relates to addictive behavior
Iorio, Daniela; Sovinsky, Michelle - 2012
Using longitudinal data that tracks bulimic behavior among young girls (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Growth and Health Study), we examine (1) whether bulimic behavior is onsistent with addiction criteria as stated in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009743912
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Race, social class, and bulimia nervosa
Sovinsky, Michelle; Ham, John C.; Iorio, Daniela - 2012
In this paper we explore a serious eating disorder, bulimia nervosa (BN), which afflicts a surprising number of girls in the US. We challenge the long-held belief that BN primarily affects high income White teenagers, using a unique data set on adolescent females evaluated regarding their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009743186
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Nineteenth century white physical activity and calories : socioeconomic status and diets
Carson, Scott Alan - 2014
expectancy increased at the same time that nutrition decreased, indicating that the most important source of increased life … expectancy was not improved nutrition. Physically active farmers had greater BMRs and received more calories per day than workers … in other occupations. White diets, nutrition, and calories varied by residence, and whites in the rural Deep South …
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