In this paper we investigate whether the presence of private insurance leads to improved health status. Using the … Health and Retirement study we focus on adults in late middle age who are nearing entry into Medicare. Estimation addresses … endogeneity of the insurance participation decision in health outcome regressions. Two models are tested, an instrumental …

Among health care systems with both public and private elements (such as in the US and Germany), an important question … is whether the type of health insurance exerts an impact on workers' careers. We exploit the unique German case of a two …-tier health care system to analyze whether opting out of public statutory health insurance and into private health insurance …

The growth of novel flexible work formats raises a number of questions about their effects upon health and the …-employment in terms of health. In addition to variation in work status of each individual over time, we also consider variation … driven by a number of novel instrumental variables. We also focus on an objective health outcome -hospital admissions- that …

the effects of air quality on children's health. The IV estimates show that the respiratory illness health care visit rate …. Importantly, by linking the health care data to detailed records of parental background characteristics, we show that children …

In Germany, private health insurance covers more innovative and costly treatments than public insurance. Moreover …, privately insured individuals are treated preferentially by doctors. In this article, I use subjective health data to examine … whether these superior features of private insurance actually transfer into better health. I focus on German adolescents who …