System (PPS) for hospitals based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) to assess their impact on health and on the use of health … care services. We consider survey data for the years 1993-2007 with information on both individualsÄ perceived health and … their utilization of health care services. Results suggest that the introduction of market incentives via a fixed …

Several empirical studies provide evidence that their actual health state affects people's attitudes towards health and … medical care in hypothetical health states. In the tradition of behavioural economics this paper considers the actual health … state as a point of reference and builds a model for studying the implications of this phenomenon on health insurance and on …

Although a significant number of middle and low-income countries have expanded access to subsidized health insurance …, it still is unclear whether these insurance expansions improve children's health, This paper exploits quasi … children's health, We find that access to insurance reduces childhood obesity and exerts positive and economically significant …

We study inequality in the distribution of self-assessed health (SAH) in the United States and China, two large … social determinants of health. Using comparable health survey data from China and the United States, we compare health … inequality trends throughout the period covering the public health insurance coverage expansions in the two countries. We find …

' propensity to be in the armed forces and to have military health insurance. We use a difference-in-difference (DD) approach … young adults have military health insurance. We also find that the ACA induced young adults to drop military health …

demographic and health surveys (DHS) for a maximum of 53 countries and almost 55,000 sub-national locations over the 2002 …

We estimate the impact on health care utilization and out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures of a major reform in Thailand … that extended health insurance to one-quarter of the population to achieve universal coverage while keeping health spending … health care, while spending at the very top of the OOP distribution was reduced by one-half representing substantial …

The effect of insurance expansions on the distribution of health status is still a matter we know little about. This … paper draws upon new measures of pure health inequality and mobility in health which accommodates categorical data to … understand how an expansion of public insurance affects both inequality and mobility in health. These measures require a measure …

This paper investigates the impact of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) dependent coverage mandate on health insurance … coverage rates and health care utilization among young adults. Using data from the Medical Panel Expenditure Survey, I exploit … the discontinuity in health insurance coverage rates at age 26, the new dependent coverage age cutoff enforced by the ACA …