carefully control for baseline health and work status of the adult child using fixed effects and Arellano-Bond estimation …We examine the physical and mental health effects of providing care to an elderly mother on the adult child caregiver … the mother. The initial onset of caregiving, by contrast, has no immediate effects on physical or mental health for any …

Abstract: In this paper, I examine the impact of uninsured patients on the health of the insured, focusing on one … health outcome - the in-hospital mortality rate of insured heart attack patients. I employ panel data models using patient …

Abstract: We examine the impact of new medical information on drug safety on preventive health behavior. We exploit the … release of the findings of the Women's Health Initiative Study (WHIS) -the largest randomized controlled trial of women …'s health- which demonstrated in 2002 that long-term Hormone Replacement Therapy increases the risk of heart attacks, stroke …

investigates the impact of home births on the health of low-risk newborns using data from the Netherlands, the only developed … important channel contributing to these health gains. …

From 1977-2001, 15 US states mandated health insurance providers to offer coverage for infertility treatment. Although …

A positive relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and health, the so-called \health-wealth gradient", is … repeatedly found in most industrialized countries with similar levels of health care technology and economic welfare. This study … analyzes causality from health to wealth (health causation) and from wealth to health (wealth or social causation) for elderly …