Poverty is strongly associated with worse health across countries and within countries across individuals. However, not … all poor individuals suffer from poor health: the effects of poverty on health vary across place and time. In this review … what is known about policies that may improve the health of the poor. We focus primarily on the modern-day United States …

, 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 …

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

This paper explores whether choice of provider explains any of the observed infant health gradients, and if so, why …

inpatient care. We also find a striking 14% reduction in mortality. To determine the mechanism behind these health improvements …