We use a social experiment to estimate the impact of expanding health insurance coverage on the health and mortality of … newly entitled SSDI beneficiaries who lacked health insurance. Our intent-to-treat estimates show that expanding health … insurance has significant effects on self-reported health at one year following health insurance enrollment, positive effects on …

Most existing work on the demand for health insurance focuses on employees’ decisions to enroll in employer … health plan among a large sample of uninsured Americans. The experiment yields price elasticities of around one …

remain on parents’ health insurance until turning 26 – took effect in September 2010. We estimate this mandate's impacts on … numerous outcomes related to health care access, preventive care utilization, risky behaviors, and self-assessed health. We …. For the full sample, the dependent coverage provision increased the probabilities of having health insurance, a primary …

discrimination on a range of objective and subjective health outcomes. The difference-in-differences estimates indicate that … discrimination worsens blood pressure, cholesterol, BMI and self-assessed general health. Thus, discrimination is a potentially … important determinant of the large racial and ethnic health gaps observed in many countries. We also investigate the pathways …

This paper uses data from the 1970 British Cohort Study to quantify the intergenerational persistence of mental health …, and the long-run economic costs associated with poor parental mental health. We find a strong and significant … endogeneity. Importantly, the intergenerational persistence is economically relevant, with maternal mental health associated with …

Do sudden, large wealth losses affect mental health? We use exogenous variation in the interview dates of the 2008 … Health and Retirement Study to assess the impact of large wealth losses on mental health among older U.S. adults. We compare … cross-wave changes in wealth and mental health for respondents interviewed before and after the October 2008 stock market …

specification and it is preferable to use more sensitive indicators of newborn health. …

Research in the health sciences reports persistent racial differences in health care access, utilization, and outcomes … medication therapies and the patients’ adherence to those medical recommendations. Equalizing access to quality health care will … in health outcomes. …