How does retiree health insurance influence public sector employee saving? [0.03%]
退休员工健康保险如何影响公共部门职工的储蓄行为？
Robert L Clark,Olivia S Mitchell
Robert L Clark
Economic theory predicts that employer-provided retiree health insurance (RHI) benefits have a crowd-out effect on household wealth accumulation, not dissimilar to the effects reported elsewhere for employer pensions, Social Security, and M...
The role of retiree health insurance in the early retirement of public sector employees [0.03%]
退休公共部门员工的提早退休中退休健康保险的作用
John B Shoven,Sita Nataraj Slavov
John B Shoven
Most government employees have access to retiree health coverage, which provides them with group health coverage even if they retire before Medicare eligibility. We study the impact of retiree health coverage on the labor supply of public s...
Retiree health insurance for public school employees: does it affect retirement? [0.03%]
公立学校雇员的退休健康保险会对其退休产生影响吗？
Maria D Fitzpatrick
Maria D Fitzpatrick
Despite the widespread provision of retiree health insurance for public sector workers, little attention has been paid to its effects on employee retirement. This is in contrast to the large literature on health-insurance-induced "job-lock"...
Compensating wage differentials and the impact of health insurance in the public sector on wages and hours [0.03%]
补偿性工资差异及公共卫生保险对公部门薪资和工时的影响
Paige Qin,Michael Chernew
Paige Qin
This paper examines the trade-off between wages and employer spending on health insurance for public sector workers, and the relationship between coverage and hours worked. Our primary approach compares trends in wages and hours for public ...
Jeffrey Clemens,David M Cutler
Jeffrey Clemens
We analyze the incidence of public-employee health benefits. Because these benefits are negotiated through the political process, relevant labor market institutions deviate significantly from the competitive, private-sector benchmark. Empir...
Robert L Clark,Joseph P Newhouse,David M Cutler
Robert L Clark
Can health-insurance help prevent child labor? An impact evaluation from Pakistan [0.03%]
医疗保险能预防童工问题吗——基于巴基斯坦的一项影响评估研究
Andreas Landmann,Markus Frölich
Andreas Landmann
Child labor is a common consequence of economic shocks in developing countries. We show that reducing vulnerability can affect child labor outcomes. We exploit the extension of a health and accident insurance scheme by a Pakistani microfina...
Civil conflict, gender-specific fetal loss, and selection: a new test of the Trivers-Willard hypothesis [0.03%]
内战、性别特定的胎儿损失和选择：对特里弗斯－沃尔德假说的新检验
Christine Valente
Christine Valente
A sizeable economics literature explores the effect of prenatal shocks on later health or socioeconomic status. Work in other disciplines, following the seminal contribution of Trivers and Willard (1973), suggests that prenatal shocks may i...
Long-run effects of gestation during the Dutch Hunger Winter famine on labor market and hospitalization outcomes [0.03%]
荷兰饥荒期间孕期长期影响对劳动市场和住院结果的影响
Robert S Scholte,Gerard J van den Berg,Maarten Lindeboom
Robert S Scholte
The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in utero. Its temporal and spatial demarcations are clear, it was severe, it was not anticipated, and nutritional conditions ...
Momotazur Rahman,Andrew D Foster
Momotazur Rahman
In this paper, we examine the contributions of travel distance and preferences for racial homogeneity as sources of nursing home segregation and racial disparities in nursing home quality. We first theoretically characterize the distinctive...