The impact of higher rent levels on private health insurance enrollment: An exploratory analysis for a single state, Virginia

IF 0.9 4区经济学 Q3 ECONOMICS

American Journal of Economics and Sociology Pub Date : 2023-03-07 DOI:10.1111/ajes.12504

Richard J. Cebula, Zachary Ehrlich, Maggie Foley

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Abstract

This exploratory empirical study proffers and empirically examines the following two hypotheses: the higher the monthly rent levels being charged for apartments, the lower the percent of the population age 18 years to age 65 that opts to obtain private (whether group or individual) health insurance: and the greater the percentage growth rate of median household income, the greater the growth in the capacity to purchase health insurance. Panel 2SLS estimation provides what may be viewed as at least preliminary empirical support for both hypotheses. Certain policy implications are suggested.

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较高的租金水平对私人医疗保险登记的影响:对弗吉尼亚州一个州的探索性分析

这项探索性实证研究提出了以下两个假设并对其进行了实证检验：公寓月租金水平越高，18 岁至 65 岁人口中选择购买私人（团体或个人）医疗保险的比例就越低；家庭收入中位数增长率越高，购买医疗保险的能力就越强。面板 2SLS 估计至少为这两个假设提供了初步的经验支持。本文提出了某些政策含义。

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American Journal of Economics and Sociology Multiple-

CiteScore

1.90

自引率

12.50%

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期刊介绍： The American Journal of Economics and Sociology (AJES) was founded in 1941, with support from the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, to encourage the development of transdisciplinary solutions to social problems. In the introduction to the first issue, John Dewey observed that “the hostile state of the world and the intellectual division that has been built up in so-called ‘social science,’ are … reflections and expressions of the same fundamental causes.” Dewey commended this journal for its intention to promote “synthesis in the social field.” Dewey wrote those words almost six decades after the social science associations split off from the American Historical Association in pursuit of value-free knowledge derived from specialized disciplines. Since he wrote them, academic or disciplinary specialization has become even more pronounced. Multi-disciplinary work is superficially extolled in major universities, but practices and incentives still favor highly specialized work. The result is that academia has become a bastion of analytic excellence, breaking phenomena into components for intensive investigation, but it contributes little synthetic or holistic understanding that can aid society in finding solutions to contemporary problems. Analytic work remains important, but in response to the current lop-sided emphasis on specialization, the board of AJES has decided to return to its roots by emphasizing a more integrated and practical approach to knowledge.