A Aizer… - Journal of Public Economics, 2004 - Elsevier
This study focuses on “network effects” in the utilization of publicly-funded prenatal care
using Vital Statistics data from California for 1989–2000. Networks are defined using 5-digit
zip codes and a woman's racial or ethnic group. Like others, we find evidence that the use ...
A Aizer - Journal of Public Economics, 2004 - Elsevier
As female participation in the labor force continues to grow in the US, so too does reliance
on non-parental child care. However, the high cost of child care has impeded the ability of
many working mothers to find sufficient child care for their children. As a result, as recently ...
A Aizer - 2006 - nber.org
Of the ten million uninsured children in 1996, nearly half were eligible for Medicaid, the
public health insurance program for poor families, but not enrolled. In response, policy
efforts to improve coverage have shifted to increasing Medicaid take-up among those ...
M Gold, L Nelson, R Brown, A Ciemnecki, A Aizer… - Health Affairs, 1997 - Health Affairs
This study presents new data from a 1996 national survey of Medicare risk enrollees and
disenrollees designed to profile access to care in Medicare health maintenance
organizations (HMOs). The findings show that expanded benefits and low (or no) ...
A Aizer… - 2003 - nber.org
During the 1990s many states extended Medicaid eligibility to low-income parents who were
not receiving welfare. We evaluate the effects of those expansions on health insurance
coverage. To account for unobservable differences between expansion states and non- ...
A Aizer… - 2005 - nber.org
Increasing the probability of paying child support, in addition to increasing resources
available for investment in children, may also alter the incentives faced by men to have
children out of wedlock. We find that strengthening child support enforcement leads men ...
A Aizer - The American Economic Review, 2003 - JSTOR
Of the ten million children in the United States who lacked health insurance in 1996, an
estimated 4.7 million were eligible for Medicaid but not enrolled (Thomas Selden et al.,
1998). In response, federal and state governments have recently devoted up to $500 ...
A Aizer - American Economic Review, 2010 - econ.brown.edu
Three quarters of all violence against women is perpetrated by domestic partners. This study
exploits exogenous changes in the demand for labor in female-dominated industries to
estimate the impact of the male-female wage gap on domestic violence. Decreases in the ...
A Aizer - 2008 - nber.org
Recent work shows that peers affect student achievement, but the mechanisms are not well
understood. I show that peer behavior is an important mechanism, perhaps more so than
ability, by exploiting exogenous timing in diagnosis/treatment of ADD among peers that ...
A Aizer… - 2002 - nber.org
This study focuses on network effects' in the utilization of publicly funded prenatal care using
Vital Statistics data from California for 1989 to 2000. Networks are defined using 5-digit
zipcodes and a woman's racial or ethnic group. Like others, we find evidence that the use ...
A Aizer - 2007 - nber.org
Three quarters of all violence against women is perpetrated by domestic partners. I study
both the economic causes and consequences of domestic violence. I find that decreases in
the male-female wage gap reduce violence against women, consistent with a household ...
A Aizer - Brown University Economics Working Paper No. 2003- …, 2003 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Of the ten million uninsured children in 1996, nearly half were eligible for Medicaid,
the public health insurance program for poor families, but not enrolled. In response, policy
efforts to improve coverage have shifted to increasing Medicaid take-up among those ...
A Aizer, J Currie… - 2004 - nber.org
Poor and uneducated patients may not know what health care is desirable and, if fully
insured, have little incentive to minimize the costs of their care. Partly in response to these
concerns, most states have moved a substantial portion of their Medicaid caseloads out of ...
A Aizer, A Lleras-Muney… - 2004 - nber.org
This paper explores whether choice of provider explains any of the observed infant health
gradients, and if so, why poor women choose different providers than their richer neighbors.
We exploit an exogenous change in policy that occurred in California in the early 1990s ...
A Aizer, L Stroud… - Unpublished manuscript, Brown University, …, 2009 - nber.org
1999). Boys born to families with income in the bottom quintile of the income distribution
have a 42 percent change of remaining there as adults and only a five percent chance of
reaching the top quintile. Yet little is known about the mechanisms by which parents ...
A Aizer, J Currie… - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2007 - MIT Press
Abstract Most Americans are now in some form of managed care plan that restricts access to
services in order to reduce costs. It is difficult to determine whether these restrictions affect
health because individuals and firms self-select into managed care. We investigate the ...
A Aizer, M Gold… - The Commonwealth Fund, 1999 - thecommonwealthfund.com
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and The Commonwealth Fund are jointly sponsoring
The Low-Income Coverage and Access Project to examine how changes in the Medicaid
program and the movement toward managed care are affecting health insurance ...
A Aizer - 2008 - nber.org
Three quarters of American children have been exposed to neighborhood violence in their
lifetimes. Most of the existing research has concluded that exposure to violence leads to
restricted emotional development, aggressive behavior and poor school outcomes. ...
A Aizer… - 2010 - nber.org
We study how advances in scientific knowledge affect the evolution of disparities in health.
Our focus is the 1964 Surgeon General Report on Smoking and Health–the first widely
publicized report of the negative effects of smoking on health. Using an historical dataset ...
M Gold… - Health Affairs, 2000 - Health Affairs
In 1994 Tennessee moved virtually its entire Medicaid population and new eligibles into fully
capitated managed care (TennCare). We analyze Tennessee's strategy, given limited
existing managed care; and health plans' development of managed care infrastructure. ...
A Aizer… - Mimeograph, Brown University, 2010 - econ.brown.edu
Growing evidence points to the important role that conditions in early childhood play in
determining adult human capital and earnings. Measures of human capital at ages 6-8, for
example, can explain 12 (20) percent of the variation in adult educational attainment ( ...
MR Gold, J Mittler, A Aizer, B Lyons… - Journal of Health …, 2001 - Duke Univ Press
Abstract The United States continues to stand almost alone among developed nations in its
lack of universal health care coverage. In this essay, we argue that even though the debate
over whether the federal government or states should lead the effort to expand health care ...
M Gold, A Aizer, A Salganicoff… - 1997 - kff.org
Managed Care and Low-Income Populations: A Case Study of Managed Care in Florida Marsha
Gold, Sc.D. Anna Aizer, MS Alina Salganicoff, Ph.D. January 1997 Marsha Gold and Anna Aizer
are, respectively, senior fellow and health analyst at Mathematica Policy Research in ...
[CITATION] Networks, Neighborhoods, and the Utilization of Publicly-Funded Prenatal Care in California
A Aizer, J Currie… - 2002 - mimeo UCLA
A Aizer… - Journal of Public Economics, 2009 - Elsevier
Many violent relationships are characterized by a high degree of cyclicality: women who are
the victims of domestic violence often leave and return multiple times. To explain this we
develop a model of time inconsistent preferences in the context of domestic violence. This ...
[CITATION] Covering Kids: Improving the Health Insurance Coverage of Poor Children
A Aizer - xerox, Dept. of Economics UCLA, 2001
[CITATION] Experience in Collecting Selected HEDIS 2.0 Measures for the Medicaid Population
A Aizer, S Felt, L Nelson… - 1996 - Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
[CITATION] Managed care for low-income populations with special needs: The Tennessee experience
A Aizer… - 1999 - Kaiser/Commonwealth Low-Income …
A Aizer - 2002 - en.scientificcommons.org
Abstract Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2002.. Vita.. References..
Covering kids: efforts to increase the health insurance coverage of poor children--Home
alone: maternal employment, child care and adolescent behavior--Got health?: ...
A Aizer - 2001 - msk.socionet.ru
As female participation in the labor force continues to grow in the US, so too does reliance
on non-parental child care. However, the high cost of child care and inadequate supply in
some areas has impeded the ability of working mothers to find sufficient child care for their ...
[CITATION] Advertising, Medicaid and Child Health
A Aizer - Providence, RI: Brown University Mimeo, 2004
RJ Ozminkowski, A Aizer… - Health & Social Work, 1997 - hsw.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract The Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB) Program eliminated the out-of-pocket
costs of obtaining health care services under the Medicare program for some low-income
beneficiaries who were previously ineligible for Medicaid. The program is underused, and ...
A Aizer - 2010 - econ.brown.edu
Every year two percent of women in the US are the victims of domestic violence, with poor
and minority women disproportionately affected (Tjaden and Thonnes, 1998). Existing
empirical research has generally found that women who suffer domestic violence ...
[CITATION] Parental Medicaid Expansions and Child Health Insurance Coverage
A Aizer… - 2001 - Working paper, UCLA
[CITATION] Child Endowments, Parent Investments and the
A Aizer… - 2011
[CITATION] forthcoming.“Home Alone: Supervision After School and Child Behavior.”
A Aizer - Journal of Public Economics
[CITATION] Got Health
A Aizer - Advertising, Medicaid, and Child Health, 2002
[CITATION] Maternal stress and child well-being: Evidence from siblings. manuscript, Brown University, February 2009. exposure to radioactive fallout and school …
A Aizer, L Stroud… - Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009
[CITATION] Wages,(2007)―Violence and Health in the Household‖ NBER Working Paper No
A Aizer - W13494
A Aizer… - 2002 - princeton.edu
Executive Summary This study was undertaken to provide the California Program on Access
to Care with an assessment of the impact of the outreach campaign California launched in
mid-1988 on enrollment in Medi-Cal, with a particular focus on the location of community- ...
A Aizer, A Lleras-Muney… - The American economic review, 2005 - JSTOR
Children born to poor parents in the United States are more than twice as likely to die within
the first year as those born to higher-income parents (Steven Gortmaker and Paul Wise,
1997). It has long been hypothesized that these differences are due, in part, to unequal ...
A Aizer… - manuscript, Brown University, 2009 - socialsciences.cornell.edu
Health disparities by education in the US are large. Males without a HS degree have a death
rate double those with a college degree (Elo and Preston, 1996). Not only are these health
disparities large, they are persistent, often originating in childhood and even earlier, in the ...
A Aizer, L Stroud… - children, 2007 - chess.bsd.uchicago.edu
The US is characterized by especially low levels of intergenerational economic mobility
among black families: while 17 percent of white children born in the bottom decile of the
income distribution remain there as adults, 42 percent of black children do
A Aizer - Journal of Human Resources, 2011 - jhr.uwpress.org
Abstract Two percent of women in the United States suffer from intimate partner violence
annually, with poor and minority women disproportionately affected. I provide evidence of an
important negative externality associated with domestic violence by estimating a negative ...
[CITATION] Covering Kids: efforts to increase the health insurance coverage of poor children
A Aizer - University of California, Los Angeles, 2002
A Aizer,
PM Anderson, KF Butcher… - The problems of …, 2009 - books.google.com
Author Index Aaronson, D., 47, 241 Aber, JL, 23 Acemoglu, D., 80, 99, 107 Ainsworth, MDS, 17
Aizer, A., 276n2 Akerlof, G., 106 Altonji, JG, 49, 189, 242, 270 An, C.-B., 185, 188, 190n9
Ananat, EO, 200n19 Anderson, PM, 151, 168, 175240241 Angrist, JD, 86, 99, 107 Arnold, ...
[CITATION] Medicare Beneficiaries and HMOs: A Case Study of the New York City Market
A Aizer, M Gold, R Brown… - 1998 - Kaiser Family Foundation
[CITATION] Medicaid Managed Care and FQHCs: Experiences of Plans, Networks, and Individual Health Centers: Final Report
ME Harrington, H Frazer, A Aizer… - 1997 - Mathematica Policy Research
C Adelman, K Afolabi, T Agasisti… - … and Policy Analysis, 2011 - epa.sagepub.com
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis December 2011, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 528–530
DOI: 10.3102/0162373711428577 © 2011 AERA. http://eepa.aera.net ... Clifford Adelman, Institute
for Higher Education Policy Kolajo Afolabi, Harvard University Tommaso Agasisti, ...
A Aizer, T Lemieux, S Bohn… - ecommons.cornell.edu
... School Co-sponsored with Cornell Population Program Sept 14, 4:15-5:45 Ives 115
Anna Aizer, Assistant Professor of Economics & Public Policy, Brown University
Co-sponsored with Labor Economics Sept 21, 4:15-5:45 Ives ...
[CITATION] Medicare Beneficiaries and HMOs: A Case Study of the Tampa-St. Petersburg Market
A Aizer, M Gold, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation… - 1998 - Kaiser Family Foundation
A Aizer… - 2012 - econ.brown.edu
Abstract We study how endowments, investments and fertility interact to produce human
capital in childhood. First we explore the human capital production function. Exploiting an
exogenous source of investment, the launch of Head Start in 1966, to identify the impact of ...
A Aizer - NBER Book Chapter, 2007 - papers.ssrn.com
In a 1997 survey nearly three quarters of American children reported having been exposed
to neighborhood violence (Hill and Jones 1997; Boney-McCoy and Finkelhor 1996). These
rates are highest among low-income urban youth. There have been numerous studies of ...
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