Date of Award
Spring 4-21-2016
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Economics
First Advisor
Partha Deb
Second Advisor
Purvi Sevak
Academic Program Adviser
Partha Deb
Abstract
The dependent care provision of the Affordable Care Act went into effect September 2010. This change in insurance policy can be used as a natural experiment to examine the effect of health insurance on healthcare expenditures using a control function two-part model to address endogeneity.
Recommended Citation
Bean, Andrew M., "The Effect of Health Insurance on Out of Pocket Expenditure" (2016). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/41