health to later life outcomes. We exploit exogenous variation from the Medicaid income eligibility expansions for pregnant … maternal health indicators. We find that the 13 percentage point increase in Medicaid eligibility during the study period was … sample. The increase in smoking, which is a significant cause of poor infant health, may partly explain why Medicaid …

led to sizeable improvements in access to health care in both Medicaid expansion and non-expansion states, with the gains …The goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to achieve nearly universal health insurance coverage through a … combination of mandates, subsidies, marketplaces, and Medicaid expansions, most of which took effect in 2014. We use data from the …

A rich economic literature has examined the human capital impacts of disease-eliminating health interventions, such as … educational, economic, or health outcomes. The reduced-form approach, on the other hand, shows that these long-term outcomes …

This paper examines the impact of Medicaid expansions to parents and childless adults on adult mortality. Specifically …, we evaluate the long-run effects of eight state Medicaid expansions from 1994 through 2005 on all-cause, healthcare … across all treated states. Using a 5% significance level, we find no evidence that Medicaid expansions affect any of the …

We estimate the causal impact of access to means-tested public health insurance coverage (Medicaid) on health outcomes … administrative data on criminal convictions and health insurance claims, we find that reducing barriers in access to Medicaid for … that allowed simplified Medicaid re-enrollment for previously incarcerated eligible individuals. Using linked …

This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the offer on individuals' health within the age range 56-70, we find support … government health care expenditures. …

This paper studies the effects of the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative on health insurance … coverage, access to care, health care use, and health outcomes. We exploit a difference-in-differences that relies on the … Medicaid, the increase was driven by an increase in public insurance take-up. Where public coverage was not available, DACA …

We estimate the health costs of supply-side barriers to accessing medical care. The setting is Colombia, where citizens … have a constitutional right to health care, but insurance companies that manage delivery impose restrictions on access. We … use administrative data on judicial claims for health as a proxy for unmet demand. We validate this using the register …