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Does delay cause decay? : the effect of administrative decision time on the labor force participation and earnings of disability applicants
Autor, David H.; Maestas, Nicole; Mullen, Kathleen J.; … - 2015
Disability Insurance (SSDI) applicants and distinguishes it from the discouragement effect of receiving disability benefits … differences in processing speed among disability examiners to whom applicants are randomly assigned, we find that longer … concentrated among applicants awarded benefits during their initial application. A one standard deviation (2.1 month) increase in …
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How the COVID-19 Pandemic Has and Should Reshape the American Safety Net
Hammond, Andrew; Jurow Kleiman, Ariel; Scheffler, Gabriel - 2021
) addressing how government, in the future, should build social welfare programs that are better suited to meet the needs of all …
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Labor Supply Impacts of the Affordable Care Act
Kaplan, Erin; Kaplan, Cameron; Graetz, Ilana; Waters, Teresa - 2016
This study leverages geographic variation in health insurance premiums to estimate the impact of the Affordable Care Act on the US labor market. We link data from the Current Population Survey from 2010 to 2015 with geographic-specific premiums from the health insurance marketplaces. Our...
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Social Programs and Formal Employment : Evidence from the Brazilian Bolsa Família Program
Fruttero, Anna - 2020
Employment is key to combating poverty. Thus, detractors of social assistance programs argue that they create disincentives to work. While there is substantial evidence showing limited effects of these programs on overall labor supply, the jury is still out with respect to their impact on formal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828218
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Decentralized versus Statistical Targeting of Anti-Poverty Programs : Evidence from Burkina Faso
Schleicher, Michael - 2017
Targeting of national anti-poverty programs in low-income countries commonly relies on statistical procedures involving household-level survey data, while small-scale poverty-alleviation programs often employ so-called community-based targeting, where village communities themselves identify...
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Economic Effects of Risk Classification Bans
Dionne, Georges - 2014
Risk classification refers to the use of observable characteristics by insurers to group individuals with similar expected claims, to compute the corresponding premiums, and thereby to reduce asymmetric information. Permitting risk classification may reduce informational asymmetry-induced...
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Who increases emergency department use? : new insights from the Oregon health insurance experiment
Denteh, Augustine; Liebert, Helge - 2022
We provide new insights regarding the finding that Medicaid increased emergency department (ED) use from the Oregon experiment. We find meaningful heterogeneous impacts of Medicaid on ED use using causal machine learning methods. The treatment effect distribution is widely dispersed, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170982
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Who increases emergency department use? : new insights from the Oregon health insurance experiment
Denteh, Augustine; Liebert, Helge - 2022
We provide new insights regarding the finding that Medicaid increased emergency department (ED) use from the Oregon experiment. We find meaningful heterogeneous impacts of Medicaid on ED use using causal machine learning methods. The treatment effect distribution is widely dispersed, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013171842
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Did the ACA Medicaid Expansion save lives?
Borgschulte, Mark; Vogler, Jacob - 2019
the improvement in welfare due to mortality responses may offset the entire net-of-transfers expenditure associated with …
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Analysing the aid effectiveness on the living standard : a check-up on Southeast Asian countries
I., Zareena Begum; Nehra, Arpita - In: Journal of urban management 5 (2016) 1, pp. 23-31
The present research work aims to analyse the effect that the disaggregated developmental aid has had on the health status and the standard of living in the urban sector after the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were established. Infant Mortality and Improved sanitation facilities are taken...
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