The public economic burden of shifting trends in population health remains uncertain. Sustained increases in obesity … - but these savings may be offset by worsening functional status, which increases health care spending, reduces labor supply … of shifting trends in population health for medical care costs, labor supply, earnings, wealth, tax revenues, and …

Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health …-screening program on individuals' health status and health care cost. To account for selection into treatment, we used regional … screening participation substantially increased inpatient and outpatient health care costs for up to two years after treatment …

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 …

We examine the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on married women's labor supply following a health … shock. First, we develop a theoretical model that examines the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on the … labor supply response to a health shock, to clarify under what conditions employment-contingent health insurance is likely …

transitions into and out of health insurance coverage. We first decompose racial differences in static health insurance coverage … rates into group differences in transition rates into and out of health insurance coverage. The low rate of health insurance … coverage among African-Americans is due almost entirely to higher annual rates of losing health insurance than whites. Among …

Using data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we assess the role of employment-based health insurance … might view health benefits as desirable and trade-off wages for health insurance. Thus, lower wages for mothers might … reflect their relative preferences for jobs offering health insurance. We estimate an endogenous switching wage equation model …

declining health insurance coverage. In this paper we examine the long term effects of the only employer health insurance … mandate that has ever been enforced in the United States, Hawaii's Prepaid Health Care Act, using a standard supply … Hawaii and other states increased, as did real health insurance costs, implying a rising burden of the mandate on Hawaii …

We investigate the effect of health insurance on labor market transitions in and out of self-employment as well as on … the likelihood of being self-employed. We consider the role of individual health insurance coverage along with that from a …-tax health insurance premium on the entry rate, with no effect on exits from self-employment or the likelihood of being self-employed. …

This paper investigates the impact of the macroeconomy on the health insurance coverage of Americans using panel data … point (2.12%) reduction in the probability that men have health insurance; this effect is strongest among college …, lost health insurance due to a higher unemployment rate alone during the 2007-09 recession. We conclude with a discussion …

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 …