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Are Mental Health Insurance Mandates Effective? Evidence from Suicides / Jonathan Klick, Sara Markowitz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Klick, Jonathan, 1975-
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w9994.
- NBER working paper series no. w9994
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2003.
- Summary:
- Many states have passed laws mandating insurance companies to provide or offer some form of mental health benefits. These laws presumably lower the price of obtaining mental health services for many adults, and as a result, might improve health outcomes. This paper analyzes the effectiveness of mental health insurance mandates by examining the influence of mandates on adult suicides, which are strongly correlated with mental illness. Data on completed suicides in each state for the period 1981-2000 are analyzed. Ordinary least squares and two-stage least squares results show that mental health mandates are not effective in reducing suicide rates.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- September 2003.
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