How Effective Are Public Policies to Increase Health Insurance Coverage among Young Adults?

By Phillip B. Levine, Robin McKnight, and Samantha Heep

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2011

This paper assesses the impact of policies to increase insurance coverage for young adults. The introduction of SCHIP in 1997 enabled low-income teens up to age 19 to gain access to public health insurance. More recent policies enabled young adults betwe...

Al Roth on the evolution of kidney exchange markets

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How the market for kidneys works when no monetary payments are allowed

How Sensitive Are Low Income Families to Health Plan Prices?

By David Chan and Jonathan Gruber

American Economic Review, May 2010

Physicians Treating Physicians: Information and Incentives in Childbirth

By Erin M. Johnson and M. Marit Rehavi

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2016

This paper provides new evidence on the interaction between patient information and physician financial incentives. Using rich microdata on childbirth, we compare the treatment of physicians when they are patients with that of comparable nonphysicians. We...

Is the Impact of Health Shocks Cushioned by Socioeconomic Status? The Case of Low Birthweight

By Janet Currie and Rosemary Hyson

American Economic Review, May 1999

The Effects of State Medicaid Expansions for Working-Age Adults on Senior Medicare Beneficiaries

By Melissa McInerney, Jennifer M. Mellor, and Lindsay M. Sabik

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, August 2017

Do Medicaid expansions to working-age adults affect healthcare spending and utilization among older Medicare beneficiaries? Although economic theory provides conflicting predictions about the presence and direction of such spillover effects, it does ident...

Social Psychology, Unemployment and Macroeconomics

By William A. Darity and Arthur H. Goldsmith

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1996

In a conventional macroeconomic model, following a policy change, as nominal wages adjust the economy returns to its original real levels of employment, output, and unemployment. This description of events ignores the social psychological consequences of ...

The Mirage of Exchange Rate Regimes for Emerging Market Countries

[Symposium: International Financial Architecture]

By Guillermo A. Calvo and Frederic S. Mishkin

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2003

This paper argues that much of the debate on choosing an exchange rate regime misses the boat. It begins by discussing the standard theory of choice between exchange rate regimes, and then explores the weaknesses in this theory, especially when it is appl...

Disability Insurance and Health Insurance Reform: Evidence from Massachusetts

By Nicole Maestas, Kathleen J. Mullen, and Alexander Strand

American Economic Review, May 2014

As health insurance becomes available outside of the employment relationship as a result of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the cost of applying for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI)–potentially going without health insurance coverage durin...

Declining Mortality Inequality within Cities during the Health Transition

By Dora L. Costa and Matthew E. Kahn

American Economic Review, May 2015

In the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century, large cities had extremely high death rates from infectious disease. Within major cities such as New York City and Philadelphia, there was significant variation at any point in time in the mort...

Capacity and Utilization in Health Care: The Effect of Empty Beds on Neonatal Intensive Care Admission

By Seth Freedman

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2016

Because geographic variation in medical care utilization is jointly determined by both supply and demand, it is difficult to empirically estimate whether capacity itself has a causal impact on utilization in health care. In this paper, I exploit short-...

Long-Term Impacts of Compensatory Preschool on Health and Behavior: Evidence from Head Start

By Pedro Carneiro and Rita Ginja

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, November 2014

This paper provides new estimates of the medium- and long-term impacts of Head Start on health and behavioral problems. We identify these impacts using discontinuities in the probability of participation induced by program eligibility rules. Our strate...

HIV/AIDS and Fertility

By Jane G. Fortson

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2009

This paper studies the response of fertility to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. I use repeated cross sections of the Demographic and Health Surveys for 12 countries in sub-Saharan Africa to examine this question empirically. Using individu...

Experimental Evidence on the Long-Run Impact of Community-Based Monitoring

By Martina Björkman Nyqvist, Damien de Walque, and Jakob Svensson

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2017

We evaluate the longer run impact of a local accountability intervention in primary health care provision in Uganda. Short-run improvements in health care delivery and health outcomes remained in the longer run despite minimal follow-up. We find no impact...

Evaluating the Medical Malpractice System and Options for Reform

[Symposium: Constraining Healthcare Costs]

By Daniel P. Kessler

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2011

The U.S. medical malpractice liability system has two principal objectives: to compensate patients who are injured through the negligence of healthcare providers and to deter providers from practicing negligently. In practice, however, the system is slow ...

How Longer Work Lives Ease the Crunch of Population Aging

[Symposium: Retirement and Work Choices]

By Nicole Maestas and Julie Zissimopoulos

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2010

Population aging is not a looming crisis of the future -- it is already here. Economic challenges arise when the increase in people surviving to old age and the decline in the number of young people alive to support them cause the growth in society's cons...

The Long-Term Effects of the Printing Press in Sub-Saharan Africa

By Julia Cagé and Valeria Rueda

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2016

This article investigates the long-term consequences of the printing press in the nineteenth century sub-Saharan Africa on social capital nowadays. Protestant missionaries were the first to import the printing press and to allow the indigenous population ...

Narrow Networks on the Health Insurance Exchanges: What Do They Look Like and How Do They Affect Pricing? A Case Study of Texas

By Leemore Dafny, Igal Hendel, and Nathan Wilson

American Economic Review, May 2015

The Affordable Care Act has engendered significant changes in the design of health insurance products. We examine the "narrowness" of hospital networks affiliated with plans offered in the first year of the marketplaces. Using data from Texas, we find lim...

Effects of Federal Policy to Insure Young Adults: Evidence from the 2010 Affordable Care Act's Dependent-Coverage Mandate

By Yaa Akosa Antwi, Asako S. Moriya, and Kosali Simon

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, November 2013

Using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), we study the health insurance and labor market implications of the recent Affordable Care Act (ACA) provision that allows dependents to remain on parental policies until age 26. Our...

Patient Cost-Sharing and Hospitalization Offsets in the Elderly

By Amitabh Chandra, Jonathan Gruber, and Robin McKnight

American Economic Review, March 2010

In the Medicare program, increases in cost sharing by a supplemental insurer can exert financial externalities. We study a policy change that raised patient cost sharing for the supplemental insurer for retired public employees in California. We find t...