, 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 …

This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U … early life interventions for promoting health …

An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks … negative early health shocks at ages 0-3, the other twin sibling who did suffer negative health shocks received RMB 305 more in … terms of health investments, but received RMB 182 less in terms of educational investments in the 12 months prior to the …

an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions … over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child health which are currently outside the boundaries of conventional …

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 …

distinction between charges and payments, and point to the need for a re-definition of uncompensated care in the health sector …