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This study contributes to the literature on supply-side adjustments to insurance expansions by examining the effect of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on ambulance response times. Exploiting temporal and geographic variation in the implementation of the ACA as well as pre-treatment differences in...
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Expanding insurance coverage could, by insulating patients from having to pay full cost, encourage the utilization of arguably unnecessary medical services. It could also eliminate (or at least diminish) the need for emergency services through increasing access to preventive care. Using publicly...
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We provide new insights regarding the finding that Medicaid increased emergency department (ED) use from the Oregon experiment. We find meaningful heterogeneous impacts of Medicaid on ED use using causal machine learning methods. The treatment effect distribution is widely dispersed, and the...
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The more conservative among us believe that "Big Data is a fad that will soon fade out" and they may in fact be partially right. By contrast, others - especially those who dispassionately note that digitization is only now beginning to deliver its payload - may beg to differ. We argue that all...
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, observed and modelled variables, we develop a novel 'sector-product' approach and use text mining to provide further detail on …
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In this paper, we study how mines change local societies in the Nordic countries with a particular focus on the Arctic region. Our study is based on register data at the municipality level from Norway, Sweden, and Finland for the period 1986 to 2013. The applied econometric model allows for...
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This study on the economics of gender differences examines whether the mining industry acts as a blessing or curse for … mining royalties with local groups that support investments in women and children. Findings imply that mineral mining can …
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censuses for Ghana, we test and find support for four predictions related to this hypothesis: (1) a recent, positive mining … the south of the country, (2) the effect of the mining output shock on output and productivity growth in other sectors … other sectors with respect to the change in employment in mining closely follows the regional patterns of intersectoral …
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mining-induced earthquakes. Leveraging data from the Dutch Lifelines Cohort Study and Biobank and the Royal Netherlands … support a reassessment of the societal costs of the mining of natural gas. …
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Australia is experiencing its largest mining boom for more than a century and a half. This paper explores, from a … national perspective, important economic differences that arise when a mining boom, such as the current one, is generated by …
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