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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"health insurance coverage"”.
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Three essays on wage inequality and health insurance coverage
… working population-- wage inequality and wage health insurance-- are studied. This thesis consists three chapters. In the first chapter, we (co-authored) examine the effects of corporate restructuring on wage patterns and inequality in a Fortune 500 firm. We show that the restructuring, …
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What does it mean to have private health insurance coverage?
The health insurance is one of the most important insurance concerning the public since it serves to protect insured individuals from potential financial loss. This has been based on the theory of expected utility and the assumption that people generally prefer to lower risk uncertainty. In the …
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Tuberculosis Awareness and Public Opinion on Expanding Health Insurance Coverage
… variables on the level of support for expanding health insurance coverage for all residents, including undocumented immigrants. A modified 13-item tool developed by Morisky et al. (1990) was used to measure TB awareness; a single item created by the researcher assessed personal opinion regarding …
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Factors associated with partial health insurance coverage among households in Malawi
Health insurance has proven ideal for curbing the increase in household contribution towards health expenditure. However, despite efforts to expand health insurance in Sub-Saharan Africa, coverage has remained low and favouring higher-income groups. Malawi is among the countries that face this low …
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The impact of the personal income tax on household health insurance coverage
… of preferential tax treatment on household health insurance coverage in this country. Both employer-provided and individually purchased coverage are analyzed, with allowance for the possibility that a given tax filing unit may possess both types of coverage, and allowing for …
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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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A Population-based Analysis of The Association Between Health Insurance Coverage And Psychological Distress And The Influence of Other Mediating Factors Among Young Adults In The United States
… This study examines the association of health insurance coverage status and self-reported mental health status within the young adult population of the United States. Additionally, the study determines the prevalence of self-reported psychological distress among the young adult …
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The Affordable Care Act: a prescription for homeland security preparedness?
… tens of millions of U.S. citizens were without health insurance coverage. Without health insurance, health care can be unaffordable or inaccessible, or both. Our ability to obtain health care is part of the homeland security preparedness puzzle. If the Affordable Care Act increases health …
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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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The Impact of Being Uninsured in the United States on Economic and Humanistic Outcomes: Results from the 2004-2008 Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys
… design (matching on age category, race, region, health status, average risk aversion, job loss to injury or illness, income category as a percent of the federal poverty level change in health, year participating in the study, and chronic condition(s)) was used to match an uninsured (case) with an …
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Cracks in the System: The Gap between the Emergency Department and Primary Care
… and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) in 2010 expanded health insurance coverage for millions of Americans, but many still lack access to appropriate and timely health care. Federal law grants Americans a legal right to obtain stabilizing treatment for emergency medical conditions, but many depend on …
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Health Care Access by Immigrant Women--A Comparison of California, Florida and New York
… women in the U.S. are generally in poorer health than U.S.-born women and immigrant men , and many immigrant women encounter some difficulties in obtaining health care assistance, such as health insurance. Yet American researchers are only beginning to make a contribution to this area of …
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Essays in unemployment insurance
… household responses to state unemployment insurance (UI) generosity across spells of unemployment, with a particular emphasis on the role of liquidity constraints. Enacted in 1986, the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) provides limited portability of employer-sponsored …
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Characteristics of Latinos with No Usual Source of Care
Disparities in healthcare access persist across racial/ethnic groups. These disparities are greatest among the Latino population compared with other racial or ethnic groups. Latinos are less likely to have a usual source of care and utilize the healthcare system. It is important to explore the …
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Essays on Economic Policy: Income Inequality and Health Insurance
… income inequality and the affordability of health insurance.</p> <p>The chapter on income inequality uses the Solow Model of economic growth to model the evolution of inequality over time. In steady state, differences in household saving rates generate differences in household capital …
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Essays on Preschool Education, Family Economic Circumstances, and Child Outcomes
… 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. I find that the implementation of a pre-K program in a …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… The second chapter examines the incidence of health insurance coverage for displaced workers during the periods preceding and subsequent to job displacement. Most individuals lose health insurance coverage upon job separation. There is concern that individuals are unable to recover insurance …
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Health Service Utilization Among Chinese, Filipino, And Asian Indian Older Adults In The United States
… of this study are:: 1) to describe and compare health service needs and health insurance coverage among Chinese, Filipino, and Asian Indian older adults;: 2) to use modified Andersen's behavior model to identify what predisposing factors, enabling factors, need factors, and immigrant-related …
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Family-friendly workplace policies in the United States: Associations with maternal and child health
… leave and indicators for maternal and child health outcomes, care utilization, and access to health care services in the U.S. context. Data from Listening to Mothers III, a national survey of U.S. women ages 18-45 who gave birth in 2011-12, were used to conduct multivariate logistic …
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Three Essays on Health Care
… of how countries should optimally structure health care. Especially, there are two important economic and policy questions asked that extend beyond the area of health economics. The first is how the expansion of health insurance coverage affects the utilization and health of its beneficiaries …
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