The problem of the uninsured - those eschewing the purchase of health insurance policies - cannot be fully understood … publicly and charitably-financed safety-net health care system. This paper tackles the problem of the uninsured by formulating …-efforts to avoid health losses can grossly distort the success of the ACA mandate to insure the uninsured and to improve the …

This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin … both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with … within-twin-pair differences in early life health and parent-child relations. The results suggest a causal effect of …

If the marginal utility of consumption depends on health status, this will affect the economic analysis of a number of … central problems in public finance, including the optimal structure of health insurance and optimal life cycle savings. In … this paper, we describe the promises and challenges of various approaches to estimating the effect of health on the …

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 …

We investigate the evolution of health over the life-cycle. We allow for two sources of persistence: unobserved … individual characteristics that trace back to early adulthood and before can have far reaching effects on health. …

This paper examines the gender differential in the payoff to schooling in China. The analyses are conducted separately … education in rural China is much higher for females than for males. Associated with this, the wage penalty where workers are … females in rural China. These findings are interpreted using the explanations offered for the gender differential in the …

This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … levels in China and significantly accentuates the reversal of the wage gap in favour of this country for the first half of …

China when allowing for heterogeneous returns among individuals selecting into schooling based on these differences. We use …% annually) in 2000 for young people in urban areas of six provinces of China. The effect of college on those who go is 13%. Our … return to education has increased substantially in China, compared to the returns measured in the 1980?s and the early 1990?s. …

particularly worrisome, suggesting that the previous IV results are robust. In particular, using China Household Income Project …

longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we have found a positive, age-enhancing income gradient of child …Though the positive income gradient of child health is well documented in developed countries, evidence from developing … countries is rare. Few studies attempt to identify a causal link between family income and child health. Utilizing unique …