This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support … government health care expenditures. …

We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in … the United Kingdom. This strategy allows us to estimate lottery income elasticities for a range of health care services … choose private health services than public health services from the National Health Service. For high-income individuals …

We specify a model for the lifetimes of spouses and the dynamic evolution of health, allowing spousal death to have … causal effects on the health and mortality of the survivor. We estimate the model using a longitudinal survey that traces … many health status aspects over time, and that is linked to register data on the vital status of the individuals. The model …

In this paper, I examine the role of household income in determining who bribes and how much they bribe in health care … in Peru and Uganda. I find that rich patients are more likely than other patients to bribe in public health care … paid by patients who do not pay official fees. I do not find evidence that the public health care sector in either Peru or …

husband’s wages. Consistent with this but, in contrast to results for richer countries, antenatal and postnatal health …-care decline in recessions. These effects are reinforced by pro-cyclicality in state health and development expenditure. Another …

This paper adopts a labor market economics perspective to understanding the crisis of health care professionals in … others used in the health field are noted. We conclude that more empirical data, a full labor market analysis, and the use of …

international remittances raise health care expenditures. Approximately 6 pesos of every 100 peso increment in remittance income are … spent on health. The sensitivity of health care expenditures to variations in the level of international remittances is … almost three times greater than its responsiveness to changes in other sources of household income. Furthermore, health care …

The problem of the uninsured – those eschewing the purchase of health insurance policies – cannot be fully understood … publicly and charitably-financed safety-net health care system. This paper tackles the problem of the uninsured by formulating …-efforts to avoid health losses can grossly distort the success of the ACA mandate to insure the uninsured and to improve the …

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 …