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Labor market effects of US sick pay mandates

Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2016

This paper exploits temporal and spatial variation in the implementation of US sick pay mandates to assess their labor market consequences. We use the Synthetic Control Group Method (SCGM) and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) to estimate the causal effect of mandated sick...

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Health Insurance Coverage and Health Care Utilization : Evidence from the Affordable Care Act's Dependent Coverage Mandate

Yoruk, Baris - 2017

This paper investigates the impact of the Affordable Care Act's (ACA's) dependent coverage mandate on health insurance … coverage rates and health care utilization among young adults. Using data from the Medical Panel Expenditure Survey, I exploit … the discontinuity in health insurance coverage rates at age 26, the new dependent coverage age cutoff enforced by the ACA …

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Mandated Sick Pay : Coverage, Utilization, and Welfare Effects

Maclean, Catherine - 2020

This paper evaluates the labor market effects of sick pay mandates in the United States. Using the National Compensation Survey and difference-in-differences models, we estimate their impact on coverage rates, sick leave use, labor costs, and non-mandated fringe benefits. Sick pay mandates...

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The Impact of Offering Free Coverage on Enrollment Choice and Risk Selection in an HSA-eligible Health Plan

Fronstin, Paul - 2017

This paper examines whether offering a health savings account (HSA)-eligible health plan for free, alongside other … health plan options with a premium, alters employee enrollment choices; and if responders differ by health status. The data … the two employers eliminated employee premiums for the HSA-eligible health plan. As a result of eliminating premiums for …

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Modeling Health Insurance Enrollment Decisions in the U.S., Under Preferences Endogeneity : A Bayesian Multinomial Probit Approach

Niankara, Ibrahim - 2017

Early work on consumer health insurance preference modeling suggests that workers sorting among employment alternatives … reflect their tastes for employment-sponsored health insurance. Focusing on examining the role of health insurance preferences … on enrollment decisions into employment sponsored health insurance, this past literature assumes the effects of health …

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Impact of the Medicare Part D Coverage Gap Closure and Generic Entry on Medication Use

Kaplan, Cameron - 2020

The Affordable Care Act included a provision to eliminate the Medicare prescription drug coverage gap. The policy was phased in by gradually diminishing the gap each year between 2011-2020. This provides a natural experiment to conduct an in-depth study of how the policy affected medication use,...

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Overconfidence and Health Insurance Participation Among the Elderly

Huang, Wei - 2015

People may have imperfect information about their health status and thus make suboptimal decisions in insurance …-economic status and poorer health are relatively less likely to realize how unhealthy they are and this overconfidence is associated … with no insurance participation. Accurate health information provided through physical examinations induces relatively …

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Health Insurance and Moral Hazard : A Misdiagnosis

Thomas, David Chandler - 2016

A common misunderstanding of moral hazard emerges from an inaccurate definition of health-care insurance. What we call … health insurance is actually a bundle of two services — insurance for catastrophic care and subsidies for routine care. The …

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Differential effects by mental health status of filling the Medicare part d coverage gap

Liu, Judith; Zhang, Yuting; Kaplan, Cameron - 2020

mental health groups and to the general population.Principal Findings: Closing the gap substantially reduced individuals … may not be sufficient to improve adherence for all conditions, in particular those with severe mental health disorders …

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Gendered barriers to formal healthcare utilization : modelling healthcare demand in a lowresource setting

Cavatorta, Elisa; Janssens, Wendy; Mesnard, Alice - 2021

health indicators, especially for women. Using data from rural Nigeria on individual illnesses and injuries as well as the …, but it fully eliminates the observed gender gap in addition to broadening the capacity of the health sector to respond to …

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