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Essays On The Role Of Policies In Major Public Health Issues, Anh Le
Essays On The Role Of Policies In Major Public Health Issues, Anh Le
Theses and Dissertations--Economics
This dissertation explores the role of policy on health outcomes and behaviors that relate to major public health concerns. Essay 1 and Essay 2 investigate the effects of Medicaid expansions on substance-use outcomes. Essay 3 examines the impacts of school reopenings in Texas on COVID-19 and mobility outcomes.
Essay 1 studies the effect of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion. Using State Drug Utilization Data 2011-2017, I find that the Medicaid expansion is associated with an increase of 40-60 Medicaid-paid opioid prescriptions per 1,000 people aged 19–64. However, the results suggest that post-expansion prescriptions are, on average, shorter or prescribed …
Three Essays On Grocery Sales Taxes, Lingxiao Wang
Three Essays On Grocery Sales Taxes, Lingxiao Wang
Theses and Dissertations--Agricultural Economics
Grocery sales taxes represent a stable tax revenue stream for state and municipal government, but there is rare empirical evidence suggesting grocery taxes may adversely affect health. In addition, the how governments set grocery sales taxes is still unclear. Therefore, based on a novel national dataset of annual county and state-level grocery taxes from 2009 through 2016, the following three essays in the dissertation investigate the health impacts of grocery sales taxes and the causes of grocery sales taxes in a framework of tax competition.
In the first essay, we document the spatial and temporal variation in grocery taxes and …