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Health Insurance and Mortality: Experimental Evidence from Taxpayer Outreach / Jacob Goldin, Ithai Z. Lurie, Janet McCubbin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goldin, Jacob.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w26533.
- NBER working paper series no. w26533
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Health Insurance and Mortality
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2019.
- Summary:
- We evaluate a randomized pilot study in which the IRS sent informational letters to 3.9 million taxpayers who paid a tax penalty for lacking health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Drawing on administrative data, we study the effect of the intervention on taxpayers' subsequent health insurance enrollment and mortality. We find the intervention led to increased coverage in the two years following treatment and that this additional coverage reduced mortality among middle-aged adults over the same time period. Our results provide the first experimental evidence that health insurance reduces mortality.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- December 2019.
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