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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Employer-provided health insurance"”.
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Three Essays on Compensation
The chapter on employer provided health insurance examines the role of spousal coverage in determining labor market outcomes. Specifically, I utilize an instrumental variable model to control for the endogeneity of a husband's insurance coverage to his wife's decision to enter the labor force or …
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Adverse selection and government intervention in life and health insurance markets
This thesis examines the workings of insurance markets. The first two papers examine the effect of government tax and regulatory policy in markets for supplementary health insurance. The third paper presents new evidence of the importance of adverse selection in insurance markets. The first paper …
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Essays on the economics of health insurance
… three essays on issues in the economics of health insurance. The first study considers the effects of average per-patient caps on Medicare reimbursement for home health care, which took effect in October 1997. I use regional variation in the restrictiveness of per-patient caps to identify …
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Essays in public finance
… makers is subsidizing the employee portion of employer-provided health insurance premiums. In Chapter 3, joint with Jonathan Gruber, we study an example of such subsidies: the introduction of pre-tax premiums for postal employees in 1994, and then for the remaining federal employees in 2000. We …
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Health Insurance, Pensions and Wages
… benefits, or non-wage compensation paid by an employer to employees, play an important role in labor markets. This dissertation consists of three chapters that study the importance of compensating wage differential theory to wage outcomes associated with employer-provided health insurance (EHI) …
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Essays in applied microeconomics
… response to the nonlinear pricing common in health insurance contracts. Our empirical strategy exploits the fact that employees who join an employer-provided health insurance plan later in the calendar year face the same initial price of medical care but a higher expected end-of-year price …