drugs, use of other medical services, and health for a nationally representative sample of Medicare beneficiaries. Given the … health. We find that gaining prescription drug insurance through Medicare Part D was associated with a 70% increase in the … health care services or health, as measured by functional status and self-reported health. Among those in poorer health, we …

minimum wage on infant health. Using data on the universe of births in the US over 24 years, we find that an increase in the … pregnancy, which are some channels through which minimum wage can affect infant health …

Evidence of regional variation in health care utilization has been well-documented over the past 40 years. Yet … matters for both theory and policy. In this article, we provide new evidence as to the cause of geographic variation in health … care utilization. We do so by examining changes in health care use by the near-elderly as they transition from being …

of low-income women may be without health insurance as a result. The loss of insurance may reduce low-income, pregnant … women's health care utilization, and this may adversely affect infant health. Welfare reform also may affect healthcare … utilization and health of pregnant women and infants because of welfare-induced changes in family disposable income, time …

The contribution of cigarette smoking to national health expenditures is thought to be large, but our current … smokers from merged National Health Interview Survey and Medicare claims information. Consistent with our theory, we find that …

effects of the minimum wage on child health. We employ data from the National Survey of Children's Health in conjunction with … health. A particularly interesting finding is that much of the benefits of a higher minimum wage are associated with the …

opioid use and, in turn, infant health and maternal behaviors. We conduct several types of analyses including reduced form … analyses of the effect of policies on infant health and maternal behaviors, and instrumental variables analyses of the effects … of prescription opioid use on infant health and maternal behaviors. Results from our analysis suggest that reductions in …

There is little theoretical and empirical research on the effects of education on health over the life cycle. In this … article, we extend the Grossman (1972) model of the demand for health and use the extended model to analyze the effect of … education on health at different ages. The main conclusion from our model is that it is unlikely that the relationship between …

We study how the health and health insurance coverage of Mexican immigrants change with time in the US. Cross … and fixed effects methods show that time in the US is unrelated to health insurance coverage. Both cross sectional and … longitudinal analyses provide evidence of unhealthy assimilation--self-reported health declines slightly with time in the US …