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 …

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 …

Credence goods markets – like for health care or repair services – with their informational asymmetries between sellers …

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 …

' 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 …

mental health care do not receive any treatment, mostly due to the inability to pay for care or lack of health insurance … coverage. How does a sudden change in health insurance coverage status affect psychological well-being and mental health? We … explore this question using age-based health insurance coverage policies in the United States as natural experiments. We …

This paper studies the design of health insurance with ex post moral hazard, when there is imperfect competition in the …

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 …