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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Public Health Insurance"”.
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Regulation of public health insurance
… first years of a large federal prescription drug insurance program for seniors - Medicare Part D - to explore interactions among adverse selection, switching costs, and regulation. I document evidence of both adverse selection of beneficiaries across contracts and switching costs for beneficiaries …
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Health and utilization effects of expanding public health insurance
… in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs health care system to answer various questions about publicly-provided health care. The VA restructuring involved the adoption of a capitated payment system and treatment methods based on the managed care model. This reorganization was accompanied …
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Essays on the Industrial Organization of Public Health Insurance Markets
<p>I study the industrial organization of public health insurance markets with competition of insurance companies, focusing on the context of the Medicare Part D program. In the first chapter, I study how the the relations between insurance companies and pharmacy benefits managers affect the …
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The impact of market forces and public health insurance on inpatient care
This dissertation considers both private and public-sector influences on inpatient care, focusing first on the impact of strategic hospital behavior on entry into new procedure markets, and second on the effect of changes in Medicaid and Medicare on hospital care. Chapter 1, "Entry Deterrence in …
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Three Essays in Health Insurance
… “How do demand-side incentives relate to insurance transitioning behavior of public health insurance enrollees?”, “The Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Coverage Among Those Lacking Housing Basics, 2010-19” and “Health Insurance Coverage Changes under Affordable Care Act among High Housing …
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Three essays on the effects of health insurance and taxation policies
… comprises three papers on the impacts of health insurance and taxation policies on individuals’ health care and labor market outcomes. The policy contexts include income tax subsidy reform, group health insurance regulation, and public health insurance expansion. In every chapter, I use …
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The Associations of Chronic Stress, Social Support, Health Behaviors and Metabolic Syndrome among Hispanic Women
… Associations of Chronic Stress, Social Support, Health Behaviors and Metabolic Syndrome Among Hispanic Women</strong></p> <p><strong></strong><strong>Background: </strong>Metabolic syndrome (MetS) prevalence is 25% among Mexican American women 30 – 49 years of age, compared to 22% among …
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Economics of innovation in the pharmaceutical industry
… investigate the economics of innovation in the healthcare industry. In Chapter 2 I use a global data set to measure the effect of health losses and average patient income on innovation in different therapeutic areas. I show that the average patient income is a strong predictor of the number of …
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Behavioral responses to public insurance programs: Three essays
<p>Evaluating the effectiveness of public programs requires an understanding of how these programs affect the choices of individuals and households. For example, the program design of Social Security and Medicare may affect how much people work. While these effects are not intended goals of the …
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Evaluating Participation In the Food Stamp Program Among Individuals In the New York City Medicaid Population
… plan, which provides low-income individuals with public health insurance. Despite similar income and resource eligibility requirements of the two programs, many Medicaid enrollees are estimated to be eligible to receive food stamp benefits but are not participating. This paper uses a multivariate …
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Applications of Applied Econometrics in the Food and Health Economic and Agribusiness Topics
… surface coal mining, high smoking rates, lower health insurance coverage, and a shortage of doctors. The second essay evaluates the cost of a price risk management tool called futures hedging. A variety of measures illustrate considerable changes in hedging costs over time. Quantile regression …
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Essays on Preschool Education, Family Economic Circumstances, and Child Outcomes
… this dissertation is to analyze the effects of public programs and parental labor market outcomes child health and human capital accumulation. The first chapter studies the effects of attending state pre-kindergarten programs on child development and health up to eight years after preschool age. …
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Essays in health economics
One of the main goals of public health insurance expansions is to increase access to health care services, but doing so may require providers to move to previously underserved areas. Whether and to what extent any such relocation occurs remains an open question. In the first essay, I study how …
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The Relationship between State-Level Policy and Mental Health among Sexual Minority Youth in the United States
… policies, pertaining to hate crimes and mental health care, on the association between sexual orientation and the prevalence of depression, suicidal ideation, suicide attempt, and bullying amongst adolescents. State-level policies included whether hate crime laws included sexual orientation as a …
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Three Essays on U.S. Social Policy’s Impact on the Human Capital Development of Young Adults At-Risk of Poverty
… dissertation investigates how three large-scale public programs – means-tested, cash welfare (e.g., Aid to Families with Dependent Children and Temporary Aid to Needy Families), Medicaid health insurance for children, and the Social Security Student Benefit Program – affected the educational …
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Medicaid and the Life Course: An Intersectional Mixed-Methods Approach
<p>Health insurance coverage is associated with better access to health care and better health outcomes at every age. The United States does not provide universal health insurance, and most people pay for private insurance that is linked to their job. Individuals whose jobs do not provide insurance …
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Essays In Health Economics
<p>My dissertation consists of three essays in health economics. In the first essay, I use the matched data set constructed from the Consumer Expenditure Survey and the Survey of Consumer Finances for period 1989-2010 to investigate the impacts of housing and financial wealth on healthcare …
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Optimal policy and the coexistence of markets and governments
… than debt, because it provides financing and insurance. A government seeking to extract surplus from entrepreneurs would naturally tax equity-generated income more than debt-generated income. Moreover, in the presence of private information, the government can use taxes to discriminate between …
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Health, health insurance coverage, health care service utilization and family structure among children of immigrants
… may alleviate or exacerbate barriers to better health and health care among children of immigrants, whose families tend to be highly interdependent and reliant on family cohesion as a survival strategy to manage challenges associated with immigrant status, such as policy restrictions, legal …
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Vision Impairment and Depression in the Older Adult
… on Aging (1994 -1996) from the National Health Interview Survey, in a cross-sectional study of 9,447 civilian non-institutionalized persons, aged 70 years and over at the time of their interview. The SOA II has been studied in the context of a social theory of aging that emphasizes …
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