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National Bureau of Economic Research [NBER]; purchase required
Aug. 19, 2024
"The distribution of parental leave uptake and childcare activities continues to conform to traditional gender roles.... [G]iving each parent a non-transferable endowment of parental leave or only paying for the length of time equally taken by each parent would both dramatically increase men's share whereas decreasing childcare costs has almost no effect."
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National Bureau of Economic Research [NBER]; purchase required
Nov. 11, 2019
"[This study finds] evidence that the change in the out-of-pocket spending burden is sensitive to income shocks, and that income changes rather than changes in health spending per se appears to drive changes in the out-of-pocket burden."
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National Bureau of Economic Research [NBER]; purchase required
Apr. 25, 2022
"Despite their importance to the supply of prescription drugs, there has been limited research on pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and their vertical relationships to insurers and drug manufacturers. This paper provides an overview of the current state of research on this topic, motivates why further research is needed, and discusses promising theoretical and empirical directions for that research."
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National Bureau of Economic Research [NBER]; purchase required
Nov. 18, 2019
"[T]hree major shifts make a uniform design less efficient today than when Medicare began in 1965. First, rising income inequality makes it more difficult to design a single plan that serves the needs of both higher- and lower-income people. Second, the dramatic expansion of expensive medical technology means that a generous program increasingly crowds out other public programs valued by the poor and middle class. Finally, as medical spending rises, the tax-financing of the system creates mounting economic costs and increasingly untenable policy constraints."
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National Bureau of Economic Research [NBER]; purchase required for full paper
Sept. 15, 2025
"[J]ob satisfaction is higher for employees in ESOPs than for observationally similar workers in non-ESOP firms and for [work from home (WFH)] workers than for their non-WFH peers.... ESOPs raise satisfaction by increasing worker participation on collective workplace or firm decisions while WFH raise satisfaction by increasing worker flexibility in their individual work activity.... ESOPs had more extensive WFH than non-ESOP firms during the COVID-19 pandemic."
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National Bureau of Economic Research [NBER]; purchase required
July 21, 2025
"[On] average, these mergers led to price increases for hospitals and physicians of 3.3% and 15.1%, respectively, with no discernible effects on quality measures. ... [P]rice increases are larger among transactions with greater scope for foreclosure and recapture. ... [These] tests offer guidance in predicting where the anticompetitive effects of non-horizontal mergers are likely to be strongest."
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Nellie Liang and Scott Weisbenner via National Bureau of Economic Research [NBER]
Sept. 3, 2002
Working paper, available from SSRN.com for $5. Excerpt: [T]he average share of participant's discretionary 401(k) contributions in company stock was almost 20 percent ... [This research paper] relates this share to plan design features and firm financial characteristics. We find that the number of investment alternatives offered ... and whether the company requires some of the match to be in company stock are key factors of the share of total contributions in company stock ...
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National Bureau of Economic Research [NBER]; purchase required
Aug. 18, 2025
"[The authors] study how couples in the Medicare Part D program choose an insurance plan. Over 70 percent of enrollees choose the same plan as their spouse. Even among those with differing healthcare needs, well over half do so. Discrete-choice models suggest beneficiaries value being on the same plan as their spouse at over a thousand dollars per year.... Joint plan choice contributes modestly to overall overspending, but increases costs substantially for the couples with different cost-minimizing plans."
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National Bureau of Economic Research [NBER]; purchase required
Dec. 30, 2024
31 pages. "Using a national administrative database, [the authors] identify county-level private plan enrollment mandates and exploit them as an instrument for individuals' transition to managed care plans. These transitions, while initially slightly reducing fiscal costs, lead to a continuous increase in Medicaid's costs over subsequent years. Counties subject to mandates experience a 9.8% higher cost four years post-mandate compared to those without mandates."
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National Bureau of Economic Research [NBER], purchase required
Aug. 19, 2013
"This paper [investigates] the influence of agents/brokers on health insurance decisions of small firms, which are particularly vulnerable to problems of financing health insurance. Using a unique membership database from the National Association of Health Underwriters together with a nationally representative survey of employers, we find that small firms in more competitive agent/broker markets are more likely to offer health insurance and at lower premiums. Moreover, premiums are less dispersed in more competitive agent/broker markets."
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