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The effects of access to health insurance for informally employed individuals in Peru
Bernal, Noelia; Carpio, Miguel A.; Klein, Tobias J. - 2014
Many developing countries have recently increased health insurance coverage at a large scale. While it is commonly believed that this has positive effects, to date, it is not well understood through which channels health insurance coverage contributes to the well-being of individuals. More...
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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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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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The value of health insurance during a crisis : effects of Medicaid implementation on pandemic influenza mortality
Clay, Karen; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson R.; Wang, Xiao - 2020
This paper studies how better access to public health insurance affects infant mortality during pandemics. Our analysis combines cross-state variation in mandated eligibility for Medicaid with two influenza pandemics - the 1957-58 "Asian Flu" pandemic and the 1968-69 "Hong Kong Flu" - that...
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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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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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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 self-employed, who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010473188
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The impact of health insurance on stockholding : a regression discontinuity approach
Christelis, Dimitris; Georgarakos, Dimitris; Sanz de … - 2014
Using data from the US Health and Retirement Study, we study the causal effect of increased health insurance coverage through Medicare and the associated reduction in health-related background risk on financial risk-taking. Given the onset of Medicare at age 65, we identify our effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010428193
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The impact of health insurance on stockholding : a regression discontinuity approach
Christelis, Dimitris; Georgarakos, Dimitris; Sanz de … - 2014
Using data from the US Health and Retirement Study, we study the causal effect of increased health insurance coverage through Medicare and the associated reduction in health-related background risk on financial risk-taking. Given the onset of Medicare at age 65, we identify our effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010436274