income distribution. In this paper, we examine the effects of minimum wage increases on the health of the children of … immigrants. Their parents are disproportionately represented in minimum wage jobs, typically have less access to health care and … the National Health Interview Survey from the years 2000-2015, we examine whether children of low-educated immigrants …

income distribution. In this paper, we examine the effects of minimum wage increases on the health of low-educated Hispanic … typically have less access to health care. Using a difference-in-differences identification strategy and data drawn from the … that low-educated Hispanic women likely affected by minimum wage increases experience any changes in health status, access …

We present evidence on the health impacts and mechanisms of a large expansion in non-contributory health insurance in … health services without co-pays. Our intent-to-treat estimates show that SP reduced child mortality by 7% in poor … important implications for the ongoing health insurance expansions …

This paper evaluates a Filipino policy that expanded health insurance coverage of its senior citizens, aged 60 and …

I evaluate the accuracy of people's subjective probability expectations for using various health services. Subjective … correlate with objective measures of risk. At the same time, observable characteristics like age and health are weakly … about health behavior, specifically in the areas of asymmetric information, moral hazard and estimating welfare attributable …

People may have imperfect information about their health status and thus make suboptimal decisions in insurance …-economic status and poorer health are relatively less likely to realize how unhealthy they are and this overconfidence is associated … with no insurance participation. Accurate health information provided through physical examinations induces relatively …

-based health insurance policies in the United States as natural experiments. I first exploit the discrete change in insurance … with statistically significant deterioration in attitudes towards the necessity of health insurance among young adults who … are affected by this policy the most. Next, I show that gaining health insurance at 65 due to the onset of Medicare does …

Decision-making in the realm of health behaviors, such as smoking or drinking, is influenced both by biological factors …, such as genetic predispositions, as well as environmental factors, such as financial liquidity and health insurance status …. We show how the choice of smoking after a cardio-vascular health shock is jointly determined by the interplay between …

The goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to achieve nearly universal health insurance coverage through a … Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to examine the impacts of the ACA on health care access, risky health behaviors, and … self-assessed health after two years. We estimate difference-in-difference-in-differences models that exploit variation in …