individuals) and individuals without public health insurance coverage. However, we find no effects when we include in the analysis … changes in BP in a high-income country. We use data from clinical health assessments carried out in 2010 (baseline) and 2014 …

Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the … health behaviors for pregnant women, which is a group of particular interest given evidence of the importance of prenatal … health to later life outcomes. We exploit exogenous variation from the Medicaid income eligibility expansions for pregnant …

more likely to have private health insurance. Larger winners are also more likely to drop coverage earlier, possibly after …We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in … the United Kingdom. This strategy allows us to estimate lottery income elasticities for a range of health care services …

We implement a randomized field experiment to study the impact of reminders on dental health prevention. Patients who … effectiveness. -- field experiment ; reminders ; nudges ; memory limitations ; prevention ; dental health ; framing …

impact of changes within a program, the Danish nurse home visiting program, on child and maternal health. We exploit … contacts to health professionals in the first four years after birth. Forgoing an early nurse visit also increases the … probability of maternal contacts to mental health specialists in the first four years after childbirth. We highlight two potential …

the health status is determined while curative care is chosen ex post. Insurance benefits depend on preventive and … health status is ex post publicly observable, insurance benefits are flat (lump sum payments) and do not depend on … some probability individuals are healthy and do not need any therapeutic health care. Otherwise they become ill and the …

Nationwide health interventions are difficult to evaluate as contemporaneous control groups do not exist and before … intervention has no direct effect on the health outcome but influences the outcome only through its effect on individual behavior … behavior, for which a conditional before-after assumption is more plausible; and (ii) the effect of the behavior on the health …

effects of Medicaid expansions on Medicaid take-up, private insurance coverage and crowd-out. Specifically, we estimate: i … can also control for unobservable differences. For Medicaid take-up and private insurance coverage, the effects are …