The retail clinic is an innovation that has the potential to improve competition in health care markets. Given concern … about inefficient use of the emergency room (ER) increasing health care costs, we use all ER visits in New Jersey from 2006 …

This paper investigates the effects of expanding public health insurance eligibility for older children. Using data … from the National Health Interview Surveys from 1986 to 2005, we first show that although income continues to be an … important predictor of children's health status, the importance of income for predicting health has fallen for children 9 to 17 …

A growing literature documents the links between long-term outcomes and health in the fetal period, infancy, and early … of data and identification to study the long reach of childhood health in developing countries. Health in early life may … be a more significant determinant of adult outcomes in these countries because health insults are more frequent, the …

, advanced imaging, and surgeries). Using a differences-in-differences design coupled with granular, administrative health …

I review the key issues that arise in financing health care delivery. I begin by documenting the key features of health … care markets that make financing so central in this sector, such as the skewed and unpredictable nature of health care … spending and market failures in health care delivery. I then review the key issues that public and private payers face in …

implications of insurance-induced treat- ment differentials for health outcomes. We address these issues in the context of the … in the health of infants, as measured by neonatal mortality. But the effect of eligibility on neonatal mortality is …

There are ongoing debates around the world over the value of private supplements to public health insurance systems. We … causal estimate of enrollment in private supplement to the free public health system. Our final sample of more than 1000 … improved treatment compliance and health behaviors, and that diabetes complications fall even in the short run. The net costs …

is also a clearly positive effect on access to and consumption of health care, with suggestive but more limited evidence … on improved health outcomes. There is no evidence of significant reductions in provider access, changes in labor supply …

Stemming from the belief that the key barrier to achieving high-quality and low-cost health care is the deficiency of … information and medical knowledge among patients, an enormous number of health policies are focused on patient education. In this … paper, we attempt to place an upper bound on the improvements to health care quality that may emanate from such information …