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What U.S. data should be used to measure the price elasticity of demand for alcohol?

Ruhm, Christopher J.; Jones, Alison Snow; McGeary, … - In: Journal of Health Economics 31 (2012) 6, pp. 851-862

This paper examines how estimates of the price elasticity of demand for beer vary with the choice of alcohol price series examined. Our most important finding is that the commonly used ACCRA price data are unlikely to reliably indicate alcohol demand elasticities—estimates obtained from this...

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One Last Puff? Public Smoking Bans and Smoking Behavior

Anger, Silke; Kvasnicka, Michael; Siedler, Thomas - In: Journal of Health Economics 30 (2011) 3, pp. 591-601

This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008 …, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's federal states. We exploit this variation to identify … the effect that smoke-free policies had on individuals’ smoking propensity and smoking intensity. Using rich longitudinal …

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Employer contribution and premium growth in health insurance

Liu, Yiyan; Jin, Ginger Zhe - In: Journal of Health Economics 39 (2015) C, pp. 228-247

We study whether employer premium contribution schemes could impact the pricing behavior of health plans and contribute to rising premiums. Using 1991–2011 data before and after a 1999 premium subsidy policy change in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP), we find that the...

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Premium subsidies and social health insurance: Substitutes or complements?

Kifmann, Mathias; Roeder, Kerstin - In: Journal of Health Economics 30 (2011) 6, pp. 1207-1218

Premium subsidies have been advocated as an alternative to social health insurance. These subsidies are paid if expenditure on health insurance exceeds a given share of income. In this paper, we examine whether this approach is superior to social health insurance from a welfare perspective. We...

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Increased instruction time and stress-related health problems among school children

Marcus, Jan; Reif, Simon; Wuppermann, Amélie; Rouche, … - In: Journal of Health Economics 70 (2020)

While several studies suggest that stress-related mental health problems among school children are related to specific elements of schooling, empirical evidence on this causal relationship is scarce. We examine a German schooling reform that increased weekly instruction time and study its...

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Impacts of the Affordable Care Act dependent coverage provision on health-related outcomes of young adults

Barbaresco, Silvia; Courtemanche, Charles J.; Qi, Yanling - In: Journal of Health Economics 40 (2015) C, pp. 54-68

The first major insurance expansion of the Affordable Care Act – a provision requiring insurers to allow dependents to remain on parents’ health insurance until turning 26 – took effect in September 2010. We estimate this mandate's impacts on numerous outcomes related to health care...

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Public health insurance and disparate eligibility of spouses: The Medicare eligibility gap

Witman, Allison - In: Journal of Health Economics 40 (2015) C, pp. 10-25

I exploit the age-based eligibility structure of Medicare and the age gap between spouses to examine the impact of Medicare eligibility of an older spouse on the insurance coverage of younger, Medicare-ineligible spouses. Using a regression discontinuity framework, I find that Medicare...

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How does retiree health insurance influence public sector employee saving?

Clark, Robert L.; Mitchell, Olivia S. - In: Journal of Health Economics 38 (2014) C, pp. 109-118

Economic theory predicts that employer-provided retiree health insurance (RHI) benefits have a crowd-out effect on household wealth accumulation, not dissimilar to the effects reported elsewhere for employer pensions, Social Security, and Medicare. Nevertheless, we are unaware of any similar...

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Air pollution, avoidance behaviour and children's respiratory health: Evidence from England

Janke, Katharina - In: Journal of Health Economics 38 (2014) C, pp. 23-42

Despite progress in air pollution control, concerns remain over the health impact of poor air quality. Governments increasingly issue air quality information to enable vulnerable groups to avoid exposure. Avoidance behaviour potentially biases estimates of the health effects of air pollutants....

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The effects of medical marijuana laws on illegal marijuana use

Chu, Yu-Wei Luke - In: Journal of Health Economics 38 (2014) C, pp. 43-61

More and more states have passed laws that allow individuals to use marijuana for medical purposes. There is an ongoing, heated policy debate over whether these laws have increased marijuana use among non-patients. In this paper, I address that question empirically by studying marijuana...

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