Browsing by Subject "Affordable Care Act"
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(2015-04-14)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyThe Affordable Care Act (ACA) has massive potential to help reduce gender and SES disparities in health, yet low-SES white men overwhelmingly oppose the policy. This paper argued white men are hurt by their negative racial ...
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(2018-04-12)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation consists of three essays in health economics and policy. In the first essay, “Health Insurance Take-up Among the Near-Elderly in the Age of the Affordable Care Act,” I pair the exogenous transition of ...
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(2017-07-31)Department: EconomicsA large literature studies the effects of young adult insurance eligibility expansions which is a major provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). I provide new evidence on the effects of dependent coverage mandates by ...
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(2016-04-11)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyDespite public health interventions, racial health disparities have proven very difficult to eliminate, particularly between Blacks and Whites. Each racial category carries its own health burden but most approaches use ...