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Longevity expectations (LE) are subjective assessments of future health status that can influence a number of individual health protective decisions. This is especially true during a pandemic such as COVID-19, as the risk of ill health depends more than ever on such protective decisions. This...
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Major health shocks can have far-reaching consequences on the welfare of an individual's support and emotional network. This paper investigates both long-term and short-term spillovers of a major non-communicable health shock, namely a cancer diagnosis (CD), on the health and well- being of an...
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We study the effect of health insurance expansion on nutrition-related children's health outcomes. We exploit quasi …-random variation from an insurance expansion targeted at poor households in Peru. We find that access to insurance reduces childhood …
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