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Evaluating insurance coverage at the individual level abstracts away from the family-level decision making behind … parents and children, and even among children in different age groups. Having different insurance sources, or a mix of insured … and uninsured members of a family, may be disruptive to consistent medical care. In this paper we investigate how changes …
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This paper examines the rise of the social protection agenda in Zambia, and demonstrates that this has two alternative drivers: shifting dynamics within Zambia's political settlement and the promotional efforts of a transnational policy coalition. We compare the cases of social cash transfers...
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extended Medicaid eligibility of children leads to positive contemporaneous labor supply responses of both parents. The … estimated effects are concentrated among mothers with non-white children and fathers with white children. …
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Families with children receive support from the tax-benefit system to a different extent across countries. In Spain … providing income support to families with children. In this paper we provide an in-depth assessment of the income support to … families with children in Spain. We distinguish between three different forms of income support: (1) benefits aimed to ease the …
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insurance to allow adult children to age 26 to remain on their parents' policies. We establish that the incidence of the mandate … child in the family to the situation where the child is not the youngest (so the family could add a dependent to existing … family coverage). We find that incidence falls mainly on households where the newly-eligible child is the youngest in the …
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Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the Medicaid expansions of the 1980s and 1990s. In this paper, we provide the first national study of the effects of Medicaid on health behaviors for pregnant women, which is a group...
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and 2019 and the number of uninsured children increased. This study provides the first national, quantitative assessment … coverage. In addition, we undertake to identify the groups of children who were most affected by administrative burden. We show … mean of 5.4 percent within the year following the implementation of these changes. Declines were largest for children …
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this is not true for most programs. For example, states can allow children to enroll in Medicaid/CHIP for 12 months … regardless of family income changes. A long recertification period reduces monitoring costs but is predicted to induce program …
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Rwanda is among the few countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and the developing approaching universal health insurance coverage. To date, over 90 per cent of the population are enrolled in the Mutuelles de Santé - a system that started off from a number of stand-alone community based health...
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