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 … significant increases in health care use, although there is some evidence that DACA increased demand for mental health services …

This paper estimates the impact of a health insurance reform on health outcomes in urban China. Using the China Health … and Nutrition Survey we find that this reform increases the rate of health insurance coverage significantly among workers … in Non-State Owned Enterprises. The double difference (DD) estimations show that the reform also leads to better health …

, and these may exhibit SES gradients and exacerbate social inequality. Using hypertension as an example and data from China … (CHNS), we find that the prevalence of hypertension in China is already close to levels in developed countries, under …. Interestingly, we find that access to health care does not contribute to the diagnosis of hypertension, nor does it aid much in the …

Primary healthcare institutions (PHIs) in China have experienced a sizable decline in medical services in recent years …. Despite the large regional disparities in China, there is a lack of evidence on the differential patterns of medical services … provider in China, we applied a multilevel linear model and a geographically weighted regression to examine spatial …

This paper analyzes urban–rural disparities of China's child health and nutritional status using the China Health and … Nutrition Survey data from 1989 to 2006. We investigate degrees of health and nutritional disparities between urban and rural … children in China as well as how such disparities have changed during the period 1989–2006. The results show that on average …

This paper estimates the causal effect of income on health outcomes of the elderly and investigates underlying … mechanisms by exploiting an income change induced by the launch of China's New Rural Pension scheme (NRPS). Using this policy … measures of physical health, cognitive function, and psychological well-being of the rural elderly, and also reduced mortality …

its negative health impacts in impoverished rural China using individual fixed effect models. Both the linear regression …-contamination. Commercial plasma donation and the resulting HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C epidemics in central China in the 1990s killed more than … poor, and bear grave consequences of malnutrition and worse health status as a result of unhygienic and frequent donations …

offspring of mothers who experienced the China Great Leap Forward Famine. The direct impact on entrance to senior high school is …

China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) linked with the 2014 CHARLS Life History Survey. We use a range of …We present a comprehensive analysis of ex ante inequality of opportunity (IOp) in health among Chinese adults aged 60 … for between 3.75% and 29.57% of total health inequality in old age across the range of biomarkers. Shapley …

health. An additional analysis on the Tennessee healthcare reform supports our findings' external validity. Using the reform … as an instrument for health insurance coverage, we estimate its large impact on overall life-satisfaction. Our results …