(usually full-time) to maintain access to health insurance coverage. We study employed married women, newly diagnosed with … breast cancer, comparing labor supply responses to breast cancer diagnoses between women dependent on their own employment … for health insurance and women with access to health insurance through their spouse's employer. We find evidence that …

uninsured women with breast cancer, we compared insured and uninsured women treated in a safety net setting. Controlling for … socioeconomic characteristics, uninsured women are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced disease, requiring more extensive … treatment relative to insured women, and also experience delays in initiating and completing treatment. The findings suggest …

lowering future benefits. We explore the consequences, for older women, of eliminating the RET from the Full Retirement Age to … women in their mid-70s and older – ages at which the lower benefits from claiming earlier could outweigh higher income in … the earlier period when women or their husbands increased their labor supply …