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Impact of China's Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance on Health Care Utilization and Expenditure

Liu, Hong - 2012

In 2007, China launched a subsidized voluntary public health insurance program, the Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance, for urban residents without formal employment, including children, the elderly, and other unemployed urban residents. We estimate the impact of this program on health care...

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How Do Low-Income Enrollees in the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces Respond to Cost-Sharing?

Lavetti, Kurt - 2019

The ACA requires insurers to provide cost-sharing reductions (CSRs) to low-income consumers on the marketplaces. We link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy-driven differences in the value of CSRs that are solely...

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Effect of Health Insurance in India : A Randomized Controlled Trial

Malani, Anup; Holtzman, Phoebe; Imai, Kosuke; Kinnan, … - 2022

We report on a large randomized controlled trial of hospital insurance for above-poverty-line Indian households. Households were assigned to free insurance, sale of insurance, sale plus cash transfer, or control. To estimate spillovers, the fraction of households offered insurance varied across...

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The Effect of Public Insurance Expansions on Substance Use Disorder Treatment : Evidence from the Affordable Care Act

Maclean, Johanna Catherine - 2017

We examine the early effects of U.S. state Medicaid expansions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on substance use disorder (SUD) treatment utilization. We couple administrative data on admissions to specialty SUD treatment and prescriptions for medications used to treat SUDs in outpatient...

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Tax-Based Marriage Incentives in the Affordable Care Act

Isaac, Elliott; Jiang, Haibin - 2022

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) introduced a premium tax credit to help low-income families purchase insurance and an individual mandate penalty to encourage purchasing insurance, but a couple s total tax credit and mandate penalty may differ depending on whether they are married. We use a sample...

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Beyond Job Lock : Impacts of Public Health Insurance on Occupational and Industrial Mobility

Farooq, Ammar - 2016

We examine whether greater Medicaid generosity encourages mobility towards riskier but better jobs in higher paid occupations and industries. We use Current Population Survey Data and exploit variation in Medicaid thresholds across states and over time through the 1990s and 2000s. We find that...

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Did the ACA Medicaid Expansion Save Lives?

Borgschulte, Mark - 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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Early Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Care Access, Risky Health Behaviors, and Self-Assessed Health

Courtemanche, Charles - 2017

The goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to achieve nearly universal health insurance coverage through a combination of mandates, subsidies, marketplaces, and Medicaid expansions, most of which took effect in 2014. We use data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to examine...

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Five Issues in the Design of Income Support Mechanisms : The Case of Italy

Colombino, Ugo - 2011

the current system is very large and gives the opportunity of selecting a best reform according to many different criteria …

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The Short-Term Distributional Effects of the German Minimum Wage Reform

Caliendo, Marco - 2018

distribution in the post-reform year, but also considerable noncompliance among eligible employees. In a second step, we employ a … employees in a geographical region with wages below the minimum wage prior to the reform. We document the reform's positive … effect at the bottom of the wage distribution. However, we find a negative effect of the reform on contractual hours worked …

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