We use data on insurance deductible choices to estimate a structural model of risky choice that incorporates "standard …

insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in …

In this paper we present a theory of health investment when there are multiple causes of death. Since there are several … risks competing for one's life, the health investments in avoiding different causes of death are not independent in general … make such health investments normal goods, non-Giffen goods, gross complements to one another, and have a positive risk …

This paper studies the causal effect of parental death on children’s mental health. Combining several nationwide … hospitalization for mental health-related reasons by the age of 30. We find that there is no clear evidence of increased … death. We also provide descriptive evidence of an increase in the use of mental health-related medications and sickness …

healthcare responded to pandemic intensity, suggesting that large health shocks do not necessarily lead to increased public … provision of health services. …

The current health crisis has particularly affected the elderly population. Nursing homes have unfortunately …

provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results … reveal that the insurance component contributes significantly to optimal labor tax rates and provides an informative lower …