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Carpenter, Christopher Scott.

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Essays evaluating social policy: Evidence from new quasi-experiments.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Essays evaluating social policy: Evidence from new quasi-experiments./
作者:	Carpenter, Christopher Scott.
面頁冊數:	158 p.
附註:	Chair: Alan Auerbach.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-09A.
標題:	Economics, Labor. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3063313
ISBN:	0493821732

Essays evaluating social policy: Evidence from new quasi-experiments.
Carpenter, Christopher Scott.

Essays evaluating social policy: Evidence from new quasi-experiments. - 158 p.

Chair: Alan Auerbach.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2002.

My dissertation consists of three essays that offer new evidence relevant to the design, implementation, and evaluation of social policy, broadly defined. In the first chapter I use a 1993 federal court case, <italic> Cook</italic> v. <italic>Rhode Island</italic>, in conjunction with the implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to estimate the impact of employment protection on the labor market opportunities of obese people. In <italic> Cook</italic>, an appeals court ruled for the first time that obesity, either perceived or actual, can be covered under the ADA. Using individual level data from 1988–1999, I estimate that <italic>Cook</italic> increased employment for obese women relative to non-obese women on the order of four percentage points—more than closing the observed pre-<italic>Cook</italic> employment gap.

ISBN: 0493821732Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019135
Economics, Labor.

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520 $a The second chapter presents a first attempt to measure the direct impact of the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) on job mobility for sick individuals. HIPAA mandated “full portability” by reducing and/or eliminating the ability of insurers to impose pre-existing conditions restrictions. I present a model where employers screen applicants on health. I show that when employers have alternative mechanisms for eliciting health status, the model predicts that HIPAA should <italic>decrease</italic> job mobility for sick workers. I use March CPS data on individuals from 1996 to 1999 to show that the law was <italic>not</italic> associated with relative mobility gains for the targeted groups.
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