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The effects of private versus public health insurance on health and labor market outcomes
Dauth, Christine - 2021
Deutschland), stellt sich die Frage, ob die Art der Krankenversicherung die Arbeitsmarktkarrieren der Versicherten beeinflusst …. Wir untersuchen, ob der Wechsel von der gesetzlichen in die private Krankenversicherung bestimmte Gesundheits- und … langfristigen Einfluss der Art der Krankenversicherung auf lange Krankheitsepisoden oder den Arbeitsmarkterfolg von Beschäftigten …
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Did the ACA Medicaid Expansion save lives?
Borgschulte, Mark; Vogler, Jacob - 2019
We estimate the effect of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion on county-level mortality in the first four years following expansion. We find a reduction in all-cause mortality in ages 20 to 64 equaling 11.36 deaths per 100,000 individuals, a 3.6 percent decrease. This estimate is largely...
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Buying control? : "locus of control" and the uptake of supplementary health insurance
Bonsang, Eric; Costa-Font, Joan; New, Sonja C. de - 2021
This paper analyses the relationship between locus of control (LOC) and the demand for supplementary health insurance. Drawing on longitudinal data from Germany, we find robust evidence that individuals having an internal LOC are more likely to take up supplementary private health insurance...
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Buying control? : "locus of control" and the uptake of supplementary health insurance
Bonsang, Eric; Costa-Font, Joan; New, Sonja C. de - 2021
This paper analyses the relationship between locus of control (LOC) and the demand for supplementary health insurance. Drawing on longitudinal data from Germany, we find robust evidence that individuals having an internal LOC are more likely to take up supplementary private health insurance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603847
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Buying control? : "locus of control" and the uptake of supplementary health insurance
Bonsang, Eric; Costa-Font, Joan; New, Sonja C. de - 2021
This paper analyses the relationship between locus of control (LOC) and the demand for supplementary health insurance. Drawing on longitudinal data from Germany, we find robust evidence that individuals having an internal LOC are more likely to take up supplementary private health insurance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607206
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Impact of time of diagnosis on out-of-pocket costs of cancer treatment, a side effect of health insurance design in Australia
Naghsh Nejad, Maryam; Van Gool, Kees - 2024
The Extended Medicare Safety Net (EMSN) in Australia was designed to provide financial assistance to patients with high out-of-pocket (OOP) costs for medical treatment. The EMSN works on a calendar year basis. Once a patient incurs a specified amount of OOP costs, the EMSN provides additional...
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Health insurance, annuities, and public policy
Zhao, Kai - 2013
This paper studies the effects of health shocks on the demand for health insurance and annuities, precautionary saving, and the welfare implications of public policies in a simple life-cycle model. I show that when the health shock simultaneously increases health expenses and reduces longevity,...
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Estimating equilibrium in health insurance exchanges : price competition and subsidy design under the ACA
Tebaldi, Pietro - 2016
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The effect of Medicare eligibility on spousal insurance coverage
Dillender, Marcus; Mulligan, Karen - 2015
A majority of married couples in the United States take advantage of the fact that employers often provide health insurance coverage to spouses. When the older spouses become eligible for Medicare, however, many of them can no longer provide their younger spouses with coverage. In this paper, we...
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Public health insurance and entry into self-employment
Fossen, Frank M.; König, Johannes - 2015
We estimate the impact of a differential treatment of paid employees versus self-employed workers in a public health insurance system on the entry rate into entrepreneurship. In Germany, the public health insurance system is mandatory for most paid employees, but not for the selfemployed, who...
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