After Midnight: A Regression Discontinuity Design in Length of Postpartum Hospital Stays
Estimates of moral hazard in health insurance markets can be confounded by adverse selection. This paper considers a plausibly exogenous source of variation in insurance coverage for childbirth in California. We find that additional health insurance coverage induces substantial extensions in length...
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American Economic Association
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/87633 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4373-9302 |