In this study, we document the effect of Food Stamp access on adult health care utilization. While Food Stamps is one … or mental health, or due to individuals with common chronic health conditions, leaving open the possibility that changes … Stamps increased the affordability of specialty health care, which may have further reduced the need for physician visits …

Italy, a country with large internal and international migration. This comparison, not yet exploited, yields understanding … the returns prevails, so that the foreign workers with lower wages are the most likely to stay in Italy. Also an "ethnic …

based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) to assess their impact on self-assessed health status and on the use of health care …' perceived health and their access to a number of health services. Results suggest that the introduction of market incentives via … a fixed-price payment system does not lead to worst health perceptions. Instead, the reform marked a moderate decrease …

(INPS) to investigate gender differences in pay during the initial stages of a worker's career. We find that a significant … gender differences are highest when workers move across firms. In particular, we find that the most significant gender gap in … growth and result in the highest salary increases. Moreover, this gender mobility penalty occurs mainly when workers move to …

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 …

, such as the puzzle of immigrant advantage which finds that Hispanic immigrants sometimes have better health than U …, is sizable and selective on health, making subsequent generations of Mexican immigrants appear less healthy than they … actually are. Consequently, conventional estimates of health disparities between Mexican Americans and non-Hispanic whites as …

This paper aims to identify the causal effect of English language skills on education, health and fertility outcomes of … degrees, but do not affect child health and self-reported adult health. The impact of language on fertility outcomes is also …

We study the impact of language deficiency on the health production of childhood migrants to Australia. Our … large negative effect of English deficiency on physical health that is robust to a range of different specifications.In the … upper bounds for the true effect of English deficiency on health of one half and a full standard deviation in the health …

We study the health determinants of immigrant men and women over the age of fifty, in Europe, and compare them to … natives. We utilize the unique Survey of Health Aging and Retirement (SHARE) and augmented it with macroeconomic information … levels of subjective health compared to natives and to previous cohorts of immigrants. As time since migration passes by …

capital, health, is also largely transmitted from generation to generation, contributing to limited socio-economic mobility …. Using data from the NLSY, we first present new evidence on intergenerational transmission of health outcomes in the U … native and immigrant children inherit a prominent fraction of their health status from their parents, and that, on average …