Subsidizing low- and middle-income adoption of electric vehicles: Quasi-experimental evidence from California

Subsidizing Health Insurance for Low-Income Adults: Evidence from Massachusetts and Implications for Future Health Reforms

Our results help explain several features the ACA experience. First, our low willingness to pay estimates are consistent with highly incomplete enrollment in the ACA Marketplaces. Even modest enrollee premiums are a major deterrent to universal coverage for a low-income population in Massachusetts. Second, our finding of adverse selection may help explain why insurance plans on the ACA exchange...

King v Burwell: Subsidizing US Health Insurance for Low- and Middle-Income Individuals.

Nber Working Paper Series Subsidizing Health Insurance for Low-income Adults: Evidence from Massachusetts

How much are low-income individuals willing to pay for health insurance, and what are the implications for insurance markets? Using administrative data from Massachusetts’ subsidized insurance exchange, we exploit discontinuities in the subsidy schedule to estimate willingness to pay and costs of insurance among low-income adults. As subsidies decline, insurance take-up falls rapidly, dropping ...

Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Approaches to Evaluating Early Childhood Educational Programming in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Discussant: Abbie Raikes

Research suggests that approximately one third of threeand four-year-olds living in lowand middle-income countries are failing to meet basic benchmarks in cognitive or socialemotional development (McCoy et al., 2016). In response to this large need, stakeholders from multiple public and private sectors are increasingly investing in programs targeting children in the first years of their life (E...

Country Pharmaceutical Situation on Access, Quality, and Rational Use of Medicines: An Evidence from a middle-income country

Introduction: Evaluation of pharmaceutical systems performance is an essential prerequisite for promoting evidence-based policy-making, improvement in health system performance. This study attempts to evaluate the performance of Iran pharmaceutical system based on the world health organization (WHO)'s indicators, including access, quality, and rational use of medicines. Methods: In this c...