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We exploit an age discontinuity in a Dutch disability insurance (DI) reform to identify the health impact of stricter … and mortality. A €1,000 reduction in annual benefits leads to a rise of 4.2 percentage points in the probability of being … the hospitalization of men subject to stricter rules but their mortality rate is reduced by 1.2 percentage points. The …
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We exploit an age discontinuity in a Dutch disability insurance (DI) reform to identify the health impact of stricter … and mortality. A €1,000 reduction in annual benefits leads to a rise of 4.2 percentage points in the probability of being … the hospitalization of men subject to stricter rules but their mortality rate is reduced by 1.2 percentage points. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886130
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 … access to health care, and equates to one life saved per 310 newly covered individuals. A cost-benefit analysis shows that …
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measures across regimes, including information on living space and self-reported health, and relevant inequality and mobility …
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on aggregate health expenditures, but mothers saw reduced preventative care and increased mental health treatment …
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This paper examines how a change in the generosity of one social assistance program generates spillovers onto other social assistance programs. We exploit an age discontinuity in the stringency of the 1993 Dutch disability reforms to estimate the causal effect of exit from disability insurance...
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This paper examines how a change in the generosity of one social assistance program generates spillovers onto other social assistance programs. We exploit an age discontinuity in the stringency of the 1993 Dutch disability reforms to estimate the causal effect of exit from disability insurance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805628
In most disability insurance programs beneficiaries lose some or all of their benefits if they earn above an earnings threshold. While intended to screen out applicants with high remaining working capacity, earnings limits can also distort the labor supply of beneficiaries. We develop a simple...
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deliveries. They also have better health and schooling outcomes during early childhood. These early-life improvements are … consequential, as they have been linked to better health, education, and labor market outcomes in adulthood. …
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argue the determinants of poverty or poor health are correlated across generations, so that children's welfare participation …
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