The Affordable Care Act: Did it Improve Pregnancy Outcomes for Women?
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- February 26, 2019
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Allen, Evan
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics
- Abstract
- This paper is an analysis of the Affordable Care Act in terms of its effectiveness in creating healthier pregnancy outcomes. I use data collected by the CDC from mothers who gave birth in the United States between 2004 and 2013 to analyze the trends in insurance coverage, prenatal health care consumption, and pregnancy health outcomes all while controlling for pertinent demographic factors. The findings of this study show that there is a positive relationship between insurance coverage and consumption of prenatal health care. They also show a positive relationship between consumption of prenatal health care and the probability of having a child with a normal birth weight. Furthermore, this research also finds a sharp increase in the consumption of prenatal health care in 2011 – approximately 9 months after the ACA was signed into law.
- Date of publication
- spring 2017
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- Funding: None
- Advisor
- McManus, Brian
- Degree
- Bachelor of Arts
- Academic concentration
- Economics
- Honors level
- Honors
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Graduation year
- 2017
- Language
- English
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