Joint Center for Poverty Research
Working Papers

Health and Mental Health (including insurance)

Abortion as Insurance
Author: Phillip Levine, Douglas Staiger

Are There Economic Barriers to Visiting a Doctor?
Author: Susan E. Mayer

Did the Medicaid-Eligibility Expansions Increase the Reporting of Children's Health Problems? Evidence from the SIPP
Author: Elizabeth Powers

Disability and Employment: Reevaluating the Evidence in Light of Reporting Errors
Author: Brent Kreider, John V. Pepper

Disadvantage Among Families Remaining on Welfare
Author: Robert A. Moffitt, Andrew Cherlin

Does Context Affect SCHIP Disenrollment? Findings from a Multilevel Analysis
Author: Jane Miller, Julie Phillips

Food Stamp Program Participation and Obesity: Estimates from the NLSY79
Author: Diane Gibson

Health Insurance and Less Skilled Workers
Author: Janet Currie, Aaron S. Yelowitz

Health Insurance, Labor Supply, and Job Mobility: A Critical Review of the Literature
Author: Jonathan Gruber, Brigitte C. Madrian

Health, Health Insurance and the Labor Market
Author: Janet Currie, Brigitte C. Madrian

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How Different ARE Welfare and Working Families? And Do Those Differences Matter for Children's Achievement?
Author: Greg Duncan, Rachel Dunifon, Morgan Ward Doran, W. Jean Yeung

Implementations of Welfare Changes for Parents of Young Children
Author: Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Judith Smith, Lisa Berlin, Kyunghee Lee

Implications of an Economic Evaluation of Projected Health Outcomes in a Community Nutrition Program for Limited Resource Audiences
Author: Jamie S. Dollahite, Donald S. Kenkel

Individual Health Status and Minority Racial Concentration in U.S. States and Counties
Author: Jennifer M. Mellor, Jeffrey Milyo

Insuring Consumption Against Illness
Author: Paul Gertler, Jonathan Gruber

Maternal Employment and Overweight Children
Author: Patricia M. Anderson, Kristin Butcher, Phillip Levine

Medicaid, Census, and the CPS: What They Reveal about Child Undercount and Poverty
Author: Beth Osborne Daponte, Lara J. Wolfson

Providing Mental Health Services to TANF Recipients: Program Design Choices and Implementation Challenges in Four States
Author: Michelle K. Derr, Sarah Douglas, LaDonna Pavetti

Public Health Insurance and Private Savings
Author: Jonathan Gruber, Aaron S. Yelowitz

The Consequences of Food Insecurity for Child Well-Being: An Analysis of Children's School Achievement, Psychological Well-Being, and Health
Author: Lori L. Reid

The Effect of Medicaid Expansions for Low-Income Children on Medicaid Participation and Insurance Coverage: Evidence from the SIPP
Author: John Ham, Lara Dawn Shore-Sheppard

The Effects of Children with Disabilities on Mothers' Exits from Welfare
Author: Peter Brandon, Dennis P. Hogan

The Patterns of Food Stamp and WIC Participation and Their Effects on Health of Low-Income Children
Author: Lucy Mackey-Bilaver, Robert M. Goerge, Bong Joo Lee

The Rise in Disability Recipiency and the Decline in Unemployment
Author: David H. Autor, Mark G. Duggan

The Value of Health: 1970-1990
Author: David M. Cutler, Elizabeth Richardson

The Well-Being of Children Born to Teen Mothers: Multiple Approaches to Assessing the Causal Links
Author: Judith Levine, Harold Pollack

Using Discontinuous Eligibility Rules to Identify the Effects of the Federal Medicaid Expansions
Author: Lara Dawn Shore-Sheppard, David Card

What Do People Buy When They Don't Buy Health Insurance?
Author: Helen G. Levy, Thomas DeLeire

What Do We Really Know About Whether Health Insurance Affects Health?
Author: Helen G. Levy, David Meltzer