We estimate the effects of permanent legal status on the health of children born to immigrants in the United States …

Using the National Health Interview Survey (1989–2011), we document the Healthy Immigrant Effect (HIE)—immigrants are … in better health upon arrival in the United States than their native counterparts, but this health advantage erodes over … time—irrespective of the health measure, race/ethnicity, or gender. Further, most immigrant groups arrive lighter than …

effectiveness and prevalence are important if the government wants to maximize the health gain that it gets from its health budget …

We use a social experiment to estimate the impact of expanding health insurance coverage on the health and mortality of … newly entitled SSDI beneficiaries who lacked health insurance. Our intent-to-treat estimates show that expanding health … insurance has significant effects on self-reported health at one year following health insurance enrollment, positive effects on …

Most existing work on the demand for health insurance focuses on employees’ decisions to enroll in employer … health plan among a large sample of uninsured Americans. The experiment yields price elasticities of around one …

Incomplete health insurance enrollment is a persistent U.S. challenge despite large subsidies. We ask whether hassles … find that a small hassle - a requirement to actively select a health plan to enroll - reduces take-up by 33%, a major …

Over half of the U.S. population receives health insurance through an employer, with employer premium contributions … the labor market to explore how this uniquely American approach to financing health insurance contributes to labor market … inequality. We consider a partial-equilibrium counterfactual in which employer-provided health insurance is instead financed by a …

find that Medicaid expansion reduced the probability that disabled respondents had employer-sponsored health insurance by …

We exploit a sharp change in the likelihood that an individual is covered by health insurance when he/she turns 19 … years of age to study how health insurance affects reported health status. We find that an individual is 6 percentage points … less likely to have health insurance when he/she turns 19. Using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design, we find that …