Ipums

Ruggles, Steven; Sobek, Matthew

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_980-1

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“…For more details on these and other aspects of the ACA, see Kaiser Family Foundation (2013). 18 I also perform robustness tests using American Community Survey data to focus on the rate of private insurance (Ruggles et al, 2018). For more details, see the implementation timeline provided by the U.S. Senate (Senate.gov, 2010).…”

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Unintended consequences of health insurance: Affordable Care Act's free contraception mandate and risky sex

Willage

2019

Health Economics

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Health insurance is a primary driver of rising medical expenditures. Economic theory suggests that insurance induces an increase in risky behaviors, but previous empirical evidence is mixed. I use a mandate in the Affordable Care Act in which contraceptives were covered at zero cost to consumers to test for unintended effects of insurance on risky sex. Leveraging mandated zero cost-sharing for contraception and pre-policy insured rates as a measure of treatment intensity, I provide evidence that this 2012 policy reduced fertility but caused unintended consequences: a decline in condom use and a subsequent increase in sexually transmitted infections (STIs). I discuss shortcomings of controlling for nonparallel pre-trends using state-trends, and I suggest an alternative to control for pre-trends directly in the context of dose-response difference-indifferences. Finally, estimates based on the 2010 dependent coverage mandate indicate health insurance provides an overall net positive effect on insurance and STI prevention.

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Unintended consequences of health insurance: Affordable Care Act's free contraception mandate and risky sex

Willage

2019

Health Economics

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“…The ACS engages a multistage complex sampling strategy that must be adjusted for in statistical tests. The IPUMS extracts of this data provide person weights, cluster, and strata variables to estimate variances and standard errors using Taylor series linearization method to adjust for complex survey design (Ruggles et al 2010b). This approach differs from the use of replicate weights that are also employed to adjust for the multistage sampling approach of the ACS.…”

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“…We employ household-level weights for descriptive and multivariate analyses, as recommended by IPUMS (Ruggles et al 2010b). All of our descriptive analyses, statistical tests, and multivariate models apply these weights to limit the impact of sampling error on our estimates of standard errors and significance tests.…”

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Single mother families and employment, race, and poverty in changing economic times

Damaske

Bratter

Frech

2017

Social Science Research

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Using American Community Survey data from 2001, 2005, and 2010, this paper assesses the relationships between employment, race, and poverty for households headed by single women across different economic periods. While poverty rates rose dramatically among single-mother families between 2001 and 2010, surprisingly many racial disparities in poverty narrowed by the end of the decade. This was due to a greater increase in poverty among whites, although gaps between whites and Blacks, whites and Hispanics, and whites and American Indians remained quite large in 2010. All employment statuses were at higher risk of poverty in 2010 than 2001 and the risk increased most sharply for those employed part-time, the unemployed, and those not in the labor force. Given the concurrent increase in part-time employment and unemployment between 2000 and 2010, findings paint a bleak picture of the toll the last decade has had on the well being of single-mother families.

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“…The data used in this paper come from the American Community Survey and U.S. Census PUMS, and were accessed via the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) hosted by the Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota (Ruggles et al ., ). The American Community Survey (ACS) began in 2001 and has been conducted every year since.…”

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Agency Theory and Work from Home

White

2018

Labour

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Wages for individuals working from home have converged toward, and even exceeded, those of office‐workers. I argue that these changes are driven by the ability of firms to monitor employees working from home. Using American Community Survey and Census data spanning 1980–2014, I find wage differentials have shifted from a 26 per cent penalty in 1980 to a 5 per cent premium in 2014. Furthermore, I find that higher wage variance (44 per cent greater in 1980) for home‐workers disappears by 2013. Changes in variance suggest that the falling cost of monitoring employee effort has made it less costly for firms to allow work from home. These findings support agency theory as a driver of the changes in wages and wage structure for individuals working from home.

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Ipums

Cited by 276 publications

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Unintended consequences of health insurance: Affordable Care Act's free contraception mandate and risky sex

Unintended consequences of health insurance: Affordable Care Act's free contraception mandate and risky sex

Single mother families and employment, race, and poverty in changing economic times

Agency Theory and Work from Home

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