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Preserving Kentucky’S Newspapers: Analogue Beginnings To Digital Frontier, Kopana Terry, Eric Weig
Preserving Kentucky’S Newspapers: Analogue Beginnings To Digital Frontier, Kopana Terry, Eric Weig
Eric C. Weig
Over fifty years ago an historian and a library director traveled the back roads of Kentucky (USA) with a portable microfilm camera, two lights, and a dream of preserving Kentucky’s newspapers. From their ambitions arose a successful newspaper preservation program at the University of Kentucky Libraries (UKL). Now in its sixth decade, the program has developed a new way of preserving contemporary born-digital newspapers. This paper explores some of the people and events behind the early success of UKL’s program, as well as an in-depth look at the development and functionality of Paper Vault: a largely automated, in-house process delivering …
Racial Disparities In Life Insurance Coverage, Timothy F. Harris, Aaron Yelowitz
Racial Disparities In Life Insurance Coverage, Timothy F. Harris, Aaron Yelowitz
Aaron Yelowitz
We evaluate the extent to which there are racial disparities in life insurance coverage using multiple years of the Survey of Income and Program Participation between 2001 and 2010. We find that African-Americans hold significantly more life insurance after controlling for other factors, especially employer-sponsored and whole life insurance. We demonstrate that our findings diverge from prior work because we examine all households instead of focusing exclusively on married and cohabitating households. The findings on life insurance coverage and composition imply that earnings shocks due to mortality are not a contributing factor to racial disparities in wealth.
How The Commons Was Changed: Politics, Ecology, And The History Of Floodplain Institutions, Lisa Cliggett
How The Commons Was Changed: Politics, Ecology, And The History Of Floodplain Institutions, Lisa Cliggett
Lisa Cliggett
No abstract provided.
Better Engaging Communities: Moving Beyond Cardinal Rules, Anna G. Hoover
Better Engaging Communities: Moving Beyond Cardinal Rules, Anna G. Hoover
Anna G. Hoover
“Cardinal rules” and best practice approaches have guided governmental risk communication efforts at chronic risk sites for more than two decades, playing an important role in how those most affected by contamination make sense of risk. In addition to providing information, however, communication approaches themselves can affect community perceptions indirectly, through stakeholder interpretations of the processes by which risk information is shared. It is increasingly necessary to evaluate not only whether risk communication approaches have been effective for increasing knowledge but if, in fact, the ways in which information is shared has had unintended consequences that change how stakeholders perceive …
The Evolution Of The National Health Security Preparedness Index, Glen P. Mays, Anna G. Hoover, Michael T. Childress
The Evolution Of The National Health Security Preparedness Index, Glen P. Mays, Anna G. Hoover, Michael T. Childress
Anna G. Hoover
No abstract provided.
Health Insurance, Fertility, And The Wantedness Of Pregnancies: Evidence From Massachusetts, Maria Apostolova-Mihaylova, Aaron Yelowitz
Health Insurance, Fertility, And The Wantedness Of Pregnancies: Evidence From Massachusetts, Maria Apostolova-Mihaylova, Aaron Yelowitz
Aaron Yelowitz
Health insurance reform in Massachusetts lowered the financial cost of both pregnancy (by increased coverage of pregnancy-related medical events) and pregnancy prevention (by increasing access to reliable contraception and family planning). We examine fertility responses for women of childbearing age in Massachusetts and, on net, find no effect from increasing health insurance coverage. This finding, however, masks substantial heterogeneity. For married women aged 20 to 34 – who have high latent fertility and for whom pregnancies are typically wanted – fertility increased by approximately 1 percent. For unmarried women in the same age range – for whom pregnancies are typically …
Encouraging Victims: Responding To A Recent Study Of Battered Women Who Commit Crimes, Carol E. Jordan
Encouraging Victims: Responding To A Recent Study Of Battered Women Who Commit Crimes, Carol E. Jordan
Carol E. Jordan
Over many decades, domestic violence statistics have consistently revealed that women from a wide variety of backgrounds are victimized, though the rate of victimization varies depending on a woman’s particular characteristics. Despite this consistency, past and present approaches to domestic violence have failed to attend to the diverse realities of victims. Advocates and researchers first devoted their efforts toward conveying the message that while any woman could potentially become a victim of domestic violence, no woman should become a victim. They then focused on creating laws and policies granting victims greater access to the legal system and making the justice …
The Short-Run Impacts Of Connecticut’S Paid Sick Leave Legislation, Thomas Ahn, Aaron Yelowitz
The Short-Run Impacts Of Connecticut’S Paid Sick Leave Legislation, Thomas Ahn, Aaron Yelowitz
Aaron Yelowitz
In 2012, Connecticut became the first state to enact paid sick leave legislation. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we find the law had modest but negative effects on the labor market, particularly on the likelihood of working in the past week.
An Intermodal Network Model Of Coal Distribution In The U.S., Benjamin L. Blandford
An Intermodal Network Model Of Coal Distribution In The U.S., Benjamin L. Blandford
Benjamin L. Blandford
No abstract provided.
Health Insurance Generosity And Conditional Coverage: Evidence From Medicaid Managed Care In Kentucky, James Marton, Aaron Yelowitz
Health Insurance Generosity And Conditional Coverage: Evidence From Medicaid Managed Care In Kentucky, James Marton, Aaron Yelowitz
Aaron Yelowitz
This paper estimates the impact of the introduction of Medicaid managed care (MMC) on the formal Medicaid participation of children. We employ a quasi-experimental approach exploiting the location-specific timing of MMC implementation in Kentucky. Using data from the March Current Population Survey from 1995-2003, our findings suggest that the introduction of MMC increases the likelihood of being uninsured and decreases formal Medicaid participation. This finding is consistent with an increase in “conditional coverage” – waiting until medical care is needed to sign up or re-enroll in Medicaid. These effects are concentrated among low-income children and absent for high-income children. We …