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Does Health Insurance Make People Happier? Evidence from Massachusetts' Healthcare Reform

Kim, Seonghoon - 2018

We study the effects of Massachusetts' healthcare reform on individuals' subjective well-being. Using data from the … Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we find that the reform significantly improved Massachusetts residents' overall life …-satisfaction. This result is robust to various sensitivity checks and a falsification test. We also find that the reform improved mental …

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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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Health Effects of Containing Moral Hazard : Evidence from Disability Insurance Reform

García Gómez, Pilar - 2014

We exploit an age discontinuity in a Dutch disability insurance (DI) reform to identify the health impact of stricter … hospitalized and a 2.6 percentage point higher probability of death more than 10 years after the reform. There are no effects on … difference in the effect is due to the reform tightening eligibility particularly with respect to mental health conditions, which …

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The Effect of Health Insurance Reform : Evidence from China

He, Huajing - 2018

This paper estimates the impact of a health insurance reform on health outcomes in urban China. Using the China Health … and Nutrition Survey we find that this reform increases the rate of health insurance coverage significantly among workers … in Non-State Owned Enterprises. The double difference (DD) estimations show that the reform also leads to better health …

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Does Universalization of Healthwork? Evidence from Health Systems Restructuring and Expansion in Brazil

Bhalotra, Sonia - 2019

We investigate universalization of access to health in Brazil. We find large reductions in maternal, foetal, neonatal and post-neonatal mortality, a reduction in fertility and, possibly on account of selection, no change in the quality of births. Using rich administrative data, we investigate...

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The Impact of Medicaid on Medical Utilization in a Vulnerable Population : Evidence from COFA Migrants

Halliday, Timothy - 2019

In March 2015, the State of Hawaii stopped covering the majority of migrants from countries belonging to the Compact of Free Association (COFA) in its Medicaid program. COFA migrants were required to obtain private insurance in the exchanges established under the Affordable Care Act. Using...

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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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Copayments in the German Health System : Does it Work?

Augurzky, Boris - 2006

This paper examines the effect of copayments on doctor visits using the German health care reform of 2004 as a natural …

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The Effect of Hosting 3.4 Million Refugees on the Health System in Turkey and Infant, Child, and Elderly Mortality Among Natives

Aygün, Aysun - 2020

As of the end of 2017, 3.4 million Syrian refugees lived in Turkey. These refugees left a country where the health system was completely broken. Several studies report that Syrian refugees faced numerous diseases during their exodus, brought certain infectious diseases to the hosting...

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Does Public Policy Affect Attitudes? Evidence from Age-Based Health Insurance Coverage Policies in the United States

Yörük, Barış K. - 2022

The existing literature provides evidence that public opinion and attitudes often affect public policy. However, little is known on how public policy might affect public attitudes and norms. I present new evidence on this topic by using age-based health insurance policies in the United States as...

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