Douglas Wissoker
Biographic Data
| ID | 5545883 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas Wissoker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas |
| FAMILY NAME | Wissoker |
| SIGNATURE | WISSOKER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Urban Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Primary Care Appointment Availability for Medicaid Patients
BACKGROUND: Arkansas and Iowa received waivers from the federal government in 2014 to use federal Medicaid expansion funding to enroll beneficiaries in commercial insurance plans on the Marketplaces. One key hypothesis of these "private option" or "premium assistance" programs was that Medicaid beneficiaries would experience increased access to care. In this study, we compare new patient primary care appointment availability and wait-times for be…
Nursing Home Use by Dual-Eligible Beneficiaries in the Last Year of Life
Research on health care at the end of life has focused on Medicare-financed acute care services. Much less information has been available on nursing home use in the last year of life, particularly for individuals who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. We used Medicare and Medicaid enrollment and claims data to examine nursing home admissions, odds of dying in nursing homes versus hospitals or the community, and variations in Medicare …
Job Performance and Retention among Welfare Recipients
Using data from a recent survey of employers, this article analyzes job performance and retention rates of recently hired welfare recipients. The findings suggest that most recipients perform as well as or better than employees in comparable jobs and that their turnover rates appear fairly low. Still, employers frequently note absenteeism and poor attitudes toward work, problems that are strongly linked to turnover and weak job performance. Vario…
Testing for Discrimination in Home Insurance
This paper examines the results of a paired testing study of neighbourhood-based discrimination in the provision of quotes for home insurance in New York City and Phoenix, Arizona. We examine whether agents treated insurance-seekers buying their first homes in moderate-income, predominantly black or Hispanic-occupied neighbourhoods differently from insurance-seekers in comparable predominantly white neighbourhoods. The study examines differences …
Testing for Discrimination in Home Insurance
This paper examines the results of a paired testing study of neighbourhood-based discrimination in the provision of quotes for home insurance in New York City and Phoenix, Arizona. We examine whether agents treated insurance-seekers buying their first homes in moderate-income, predominantly black or Hispanic-occupied neighbourhoods differently from insurance-seekers in comparable predominantly white neighbourhoods. The study examines differences …
Choice Characteristics and Parents' Child-Care Decisions
Choice models are a key tool of empirically oriented rational choice researchers. However, most researchers do not have the information they need to adequately test their hypotheses and rely solely on individual characteristics of the choosers. The lack of information on the options and constraints parents face may lead researchers to conclude that choices are not rational rather than to question whether they have the appropriate data. This issue…
The Evaluation of the Washington State Family Independence Program
This volume, the result of the Urban Institute's evaluation of the Washington State Family Independence Program (FIP), examines a state's effort to implement a welfare reform program designed to help welfare families become more economically self-sufficient. The implementation of FIP was expected, relative to the regular Aid to Families with Dependent Children program, to increase participation in education, training, and employment, which would …
Price, Quality, and Income in Child Care Choice
Recent legislation may substantially expand federal assistance in paying for child care. This paper examines the potential effects of three aspects of federal assistance-reducing child care price (through vouchers or grants to providers), improving its quality (through incentives or regulation), and increasing family income (through tax credits)-on the child care choices employed mothers make. The data come from the 1985 wave of the National Long…
Response to Hannan and Tuma
In response to Hannan and Tuma we see no need to retract or change anything in our article (hereafter cited as CW). We discuss each of their sections in order
A Reanalyis of Marital Stability in the Seattle-Denver Income-Maintenance Experiment
This paper challenges the widely cited finding of Groeneveld, Hannan, and Tuma that the Seattle-Denver Income-Maintenance Experiment provides evidence that guaranteed income plans for poor husband-wife families will increase marital dissolution relative to the existing program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children. The reanalysis of the experimental data distinguishes between the experimental treatment in the form of the "pure" negative income…
Job Performance and Retention among Welfare Recipients
Using data from a recent survey of employers, this article analyzes job performance and retention rates of recently hired welfare recipients. The findings suggest that most recipients perform as well as or better than employees in comparable jobs and that their turnover rates appear fairly low. Still, employers frequently note absenteeism and poor attitudes toward work, problems that are strongly linked to turnover and weak job performance. Vario…
A Reanalyis of Marital Stability in the Seattle-Denver Income-Maintenance Experiment
This paper challenges the widely cited finding of Groeneveld, Hannan, and Tuma that the Seattle-Denver Income-Maintenance Experiment provides evidence that guaranteed income plans for poor husband-wife families will increase marital dissolution relative to the existing program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children. The reanalysis of the experimental data distinguishes between the experimental treatment in the form of the "pure" negative income…
Choice Characteristics and Parents' Child-Care Decisions
Choice models are a key tool of empirically oriented rational choice researchers. However, most researchers do not have the information they need to adequately test their hypotheses and rely solely on individual characteristics of the choosers. The lack of information on the options and constraints parents face may lead researchers to conclude that choices are not rational rather than to question whether they have the appropriate data. This issue…
Testing for Discrimination in Home Insurance
This paper examines the results of a paired testing study of neighbourhood-based discrimination in the provision of quotes for home insurance in New York City and Phoenix, Arizona. We examine whether agents treated insurance-seekers buying their first homes in moderate-income, predominantly black or Hispanic-occupied neighbourhoods differently from insurance-seekers in comparable predominantly white neighbourhoods. The study examines differences …
Response to Hannan and Tuma
In response to Hannan and Tuma we see no need to retract or change anything in our article (hereafter cited as CW). We discuss each of their sections in order
A Reanalyis of Marital Stability in the Seattle-Denver Income-Maintenance Experiment
This paper challenges the widely cited finding of Groeneveld, Hannan, and Tuma that the Seattle-Denver Income-Maintenance Experiment provides evidence that guaranteed income plans for poor husband-wife families will increase marital dissolution relative to the existing program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children. The reanalysis of the experimental data distinguishes between the experimental treatment in the form of the "pure" negative income…
Price, Quality, and Income in Child Care Choice
Recent legislation may substantially expand federal assistance in paying for child care. This paper examines the potential effects of three aspects of federal assistance-reducing child care price (through vouchers or grants to providers), improving its quality (through incentives or regulation), and increasing family income (through tax credits)-on the child care choices employed mothers make. The data come from the 1985 wave of the National Long…
The Evaluation of the Washington State Family Independence Program
This volume, the result of the Urban Institute's evaluation of the Washington State Family Independence Program (FIP), examines a state's effort to implement a welfare reform program designed to help welfare families become more economically self-sufficient. The implementation of FIP was expected, relative to the regular Aid to Families with Dependent Children program, to increase participation in education, training, and employment, which would …
Choice Characteristics and Parents' Child-Care Decisions
Choice models are a key tool of empirically oriented rational choice researchers. However, most researchers do not have the information they need to adequately test their hypotheses and rely solely on individual characteristics of the choosers. The lack of information on the options and constraints parents face may lead researchers to conclude that choices are not rational rather than to question whether they have the appropriate data. This issue…
Testing for Discrimination in Home Insurance
This paper examines the results of a paired testing study of neighbourhood-based discrimination in the provision of quotes for home insurance in New York City and Phoenix, Arizona. We examine whether agents treated insurance-seekers buying their first homes in moderate-income, predominantly black or Hispanic-occupied neighbourhoods differently from insurance-seekers in comparable predominantly white neighbourhoods. The study examines differences …
Testing for Discrimination in Home Insurance
This paper examines the results of a paired testing study of neighbourhood-based discrimination in the provision of quotes for home insurance in New York City and Phoenix, Arizona. We examine whether agents treated insurance-seekers buying their first homes in moderate-income, predominantly black or Hispanic-occupied neighbourhoods differently from insurance-seekers in comparable predominantly white neighbourhoods. The study examines differences …
Job Performance and Retention among Welfare Recipients
Using data from a recent survey of employers, this article analyzes job performance and retention rates of recently hired welfare recipients. The findings suggest that most recipients perform as well as or better than employees in comparable jobs and that their turnover rates appear fairly low. Still, employers frequently note absenteeism and poor attitudes toward work, problems that are strongly linked to turnover and weak job performance. Vario…
Nursing Home Use by Dual-Eligible Beneficiaries in the Last Year of Life
Research on health care at the end of life has focused on Medicare-financed acute care services. Much less information has been available on nursing home use in the last year of life, particularly for individuals who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. We used Medicare and Medicaid enrollment and claims data to examine nursing home admissions, odds of dying in nursing homes versus hospitals or the community, and variations in Medicare …
Primary Care Appointment Availability for Medicaid Patients
BACKGROUND: Arkansas and Iowa received waivers from the federal government in 2014 to use federal Medicaid expansion funding to enroll beneficiaries in commercial insurance plans on the Marketplaces. One key hypothesis of these "private option" or "premium assistance" programs was that Medicaid beneficiaries would experience increased access to care. In this study, we compare new patient primary care appointment availability and wait-times for be…
Economics (7 works) · Business (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Actuarial science (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)