The examination of the causal impact of health insurance coverage on healthcare utilisation is a critical endeavour in … private health insurance (PHI) coverage on healthcare utilisation, considering the intricacies of misreporting and endogeneity …

address this issue, the governments of LMICs have initiated health insurance programs that target these poor populations …. However, the health benefits these programs provide are often limited due to resource constraints in LMICs. In this paper, we … that rural residents substitute outpatient services in hospitals for that in township health centers. Lastly, results on …

Previous research has found that immigration benefits the health of working-age natives, an effect mediated through the … labor market. We use the Study of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate whether immigration also … affects the health of natives 65-80 years old. Immigration may increase the supply and lower the price of personal and …

The relationship between physical activity and child health and development is well-documented, yet the extant … literature provides limited causal insight into the amount of physical activity considered optimal for improving any given health … comprehensive set of health, non-cognitive development, and academic outcomes of children and adolescents. Applying an individual …

health. We also ftnd that loneliness has a direct impact on body mass index and speciftc mental health issues, with these … emphasising the pivotal role of attitudes in predicting signiftcant economic and health outcomes, thus opening up a new pathway …

The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the …-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to that of their compatriots who stay in the country of origin. Isolating … cultural effects can best gauge self-selection and host country effects on the health of emigrants with longer time abroad. We …

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 … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …

when applying before-and-after methods in the presence of fuzzy discontinuities. Using data from the National Health … older Americans' health care access and utilization. Our results suggest that the ACA has (1) led to a 5% increase in the … by an increase in the demand for health services without a corresponding adjustment in supply following the …