We examine the effects of the State Innovation Models (SIM) on population-level health status. The SIM initiative … Surveillance System for the years 2010 -- 2016 to compare health of the populations in 6 SIM states to 15 states that were not … involved in any aspects of SIM. We examine changes in health using an event study design. We develop a Latent Class Profile …

A strong association between lower socioeconomic status (SES) and worse health-- the SES-health gradient-- has been … income gradient in self-reported health in the US and Canada. We find that being below median income raises the likelihood … that a middle aged person is in poor or fair health by about 15 percentage points in the U.S., compared to less than 8 …

Income differences across countries primarily reflect differences in total factor productivity (TFP). More …

that links these features of the business environment to cross-firm productivity distributions, entrepreneurs' welfare, and …

these tasks are designed to be used by skilled workers, productivity in the LDCs will be low. Even when all countries have … factor productivity and output per worker. Our theory also suggests that productivity differences should be highest in medium … effect on the direction of technical change and on productivity differences …

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 …

primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of near-elderly Americans, relative to their European peers. In particular …, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in … Europe. We find that differences in health can explain most of the growing gap in remaining life expectancy. In addition, we …

Does Canada's publicly funded, single payer health care system deliver better health outcomes and distribute health … resources more equitably than the multi-payer heavily private U.S. system? We show that the efficacy of health care systems … of health status using JCUSH (The Joint Canada/U.S. Survey of Health) and other surveys. We find a somewhat higher …