Yaa Akosa Antwi
Johns Hopkins University
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We re-visit the relationship between private health insurance mandates, access to employer-sponsored health insurance, and labor market outcomes using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. We model employer-sponsored health insurance access and labor market outcomes across the lifecycle as...
December 10, 2014 - Article
One of the key potential benefits of increasing health insurance coverage is providing greater access to health care. Yet it is notoriously difficult to find good evidence of the effect of having insurance on utilization, since people who have insurance may differ from those who do not - for example...
The Affordable Care Act of 2010 expanded coverage to young adults by allowing them to remain on their parent's private health insurance until they turn 26 years old. While there is evidence on insurance effects, we know very little about use of general or specific forms of medical care. We study the...
December 1, 2012 - Article
The ACA's dependent coverage mandate increased the percentage of 19-25 year olds with health insurance from 66 to 70 percent, an increase of about 938,000 individuals. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) required that health insurers extend dependent coverage to the children of their insured by September...
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 using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). Our comparison of outcomes for young adults aged 19...
We use data from California to document and offer possible explanations for the sharp increase in hospital prices charged to private payers after 1999. We find a downward trend in price for private pay patients in the 1990s and a rapid upward trend beginning in 1999, amounting to an annual average...
January 1, 2009 - Chapter
We use data from California to document and offer possible explanations for the sharp increase in hospital prices charged to private payers after 1999. We find a downward trend in price for private pay patients in the 1990s and a rapid upward trend beginning in 1999, amounting to an annual average...
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