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While a large literature examines the immediate and long-run effects of public health insurance, much less is known about the impacts of total program exposure on child developmental outcomes. This paper uses an instrumental variable strategy to estimate the effect of cumulative eligibility gain...
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Improving maternal and child health outcomes is a major development objective. Targets related to these outcomes were included in the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals and they continue to galvanize global support through the Sustainable Development Goals (under Goal 3 health...
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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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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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among households with children, including measures that capture hardship explicitly experienced by children. Using data from … on household food hardship by exploiting between state, over-time, and between household income eligibility criteria. We … find that having an eligible child reduces rates of household food insecurity and very low food security by 19% & 24 …
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, it still is unclear whether these insurance expansions improve children's health, This paper exploits quasi … children's health, We find that access to insurance reduces childhood obesity and exerts positive and economically significant … children's regular growth check-ups and deworming treatments, consistent with an increased awareness of children's weight and …
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We study the effect of health insurance expansion on nutrition-related children's health outcomes. We exploit quasi …, such as children's regular growth checks-ups and deworming treatments, the duration of breastfeeding, and a substitution of …
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Health insurance status can change over the life cycle for exogenous reasons (e.g. Medicare for the elders, PPACA for younger agents, termination of coverage at retirement in employer-provided plans). Durability of the health capital, endogenous mortality and morbidity, as well as backward...
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on health-related financial risks using a nationally representative household survey data collected over a ten …
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A main goal of health insurance is to smooth out the financial risk that comes with health shocks and health care. Nevertheless, there has been relatively sparse evidence on how health insurance affects financial outcomes. The few studies that exist focus on the effect of gaining health...
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