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0.708 (0.455) 0.558 (0.497) Both the excerpt and table below come from the following article: Barbaresco, S., Courtemanche, C. J., & Qi, Y. (2015). Impacts of the Affordable Care Act dependent coverage provision on health-related outcomes of young adults. Journal of Health Economics, 40, 54-68. You do not need to read the article to be able to complete this assignment. "The first major insurance expansion of the Affordable Care Act - a provision requiring insurers to allow dependents to remain on parents' health insurance until turning 26 - took effect in September 2010. We estimate this mandate's impacts on numerous outcomes related to health care access [...]. "The health care access measures include having insurance, a primary care doctor, and any foregone care because of cost." Means and standard deviations for outcome variables. Outcome variable Pre-treatment period Post-treatment period Ages 23-25 Ages 27-29 Ages 23-25 Ages 27-29 Health care access Any health insurance coverage 0.680 (0.466) 0.753 (0.431) 0.709 (0.454) Any primary care doctor 0.564 (0496) 0.641 (0.480) 0.519(0.500) Cost prevented care in past year 0.241 (0427) 0.216 (0411) 0.240 (0427) 0.235 (0.424 This table presents averages for each listed variable and you can safely ignore the standard errors that are reported in parentheses. Based on the information above, answer the following questions, a. Name the dependent and the main independent variables (identify them separately). b. What is one of the main hypotheses? What is the treatment/stimulus? State them in your own words. c. Name the treatment and the comparison groups (identify them separately). Explain the rationale behind this comparison d. Calculate the difference-in-differences (DD) estimate based on the results for health insurance coverage presented in the table above. Show your calculations and interpret the DD estimate in a single sentence. e. Consider again the same results as above in part d. Provide a graphical representation of these findings together with the implied counterfactual. Make sure to label all the axes and curves. It may be easier to draw this portion by hand on a piece of paper. Please take a picture of your graph, make 2.2.1.1 0.708 (0.455) 0.558 (0.497) Both the excerpt and table below come from the following article: Barbaresco, S., Courtemanche, C. J., & Qi, Y. (2015). Impacts of the Affordable Care Act dependent coverage provision on health-related outcomes of young adults. Journal of Health Economics, 40, 54-68. You do not need to read the article to be able to complete this assignment. "The first major insurance expansion of the Affordable Care Act - a provision requiring insurers to allow dependents to remain on parents' health insurance until turning 26 - took effect in September 2010. We estimate this mandate's impacts on numerous outcomes related to health care access [...]. "The health care access measures include having insurance, a primary care doctor, and any foregone care because of cost." Means and standard deviations for outcome variables. Outcome variable Pre-treatment period Post-treatment period Ages 23-25 Ages 27-29 Ages 23-25 Ages 27-29 Health care access Any health insurance coverage 0.680 (0.466) 0.753 (0.431) 0.709 (0.454) Any primary care doctor 0.564 (0496) 0.641 (0.480) 0.519(0.500) Cost prevented care in past year 0.241 (0427) 0.216 (0411) 0.240 (0427) 0.235 (0.424 This table presents averages for each listed variable and you can safely ignore the standard errors that are reported in parentheses. Based on the information above, answer the following questions, a. Name the dependent and the main independent variables (identify them separately). b. What is one of the main hypotheses? What is the treatment/stimulus? State them in your own words. c. Name the treatment and the comparison groups (identify them separately). Explain the rationale behind this comparison d. Calculate the difference-in-differences (DD) estimate based on the results for health insurance coverage presented in the table above. Show your calculations and interpret the DD estimate in a single sentence. e. Consider again the same results as above in part d. Provide a graphical representation of these findings together with the implied counterfactual. Make sure to label all the axes and curves. It may be easier to draw this portion by hand on a piece of paper. Please take a picture of your graph, make 2.2