countries, where it is rapidly becoming the major public health problem facing such nations. As a consequence, there has been a …

infectious disease. Local policies have little impact on the economy nor on local public health. Stay-at-home is only weakly … economic and public health shock. They also show that policy spillovers and behavioral responses are important. The tradeoff … between the economy and public health in a pandemic depends strongly on what is happening elsewhere. This underscores the …

. In a financial crisis bank health is significantly damaged. Post-crisis regulatory changes have aimed at restoring bank … health, but measuring bank health by Tobin's Q, we find that the ill health of banks in the recent U.S. financial crisis and …

health improvements, which we estimate at 1.82 years of quality-adjusted life. However, these were roughly offset by … health by way of behavioral improvements and public health are possible …

Does Canada's publicly funded, single payer health care system deliver better health outcomes and distribute health … resources more equitably than the multi-payer heavily private U.S. system? We show that the efficacy of health care systems … of health status using JCUSH (The Joint Canada/U.S. Survey of Health) and other surveys. We find a somewhat higher …

, there is limited evidence on how drug coverage might affect health. The goal of this paper is to obtain quot …;causal effectsquot; of prescription drug coverage on drug use, use of other medical services and health of the elderly. We use fixed … discernable effect on hospital admissions or health …

This paper investigates the effects of expanding public health insurance eligibility for older children. Using data … from the National Health Interview Surveys from 1986 to 2005, we first show that although income continues to be an … important predictor of children's health status, the importance of income for predicting health has fallen for children 9 to 17 …

drugs, use of other medical services, and health for a nationally representative sample of Medicare beneficiaries. Given the … health. We find that gaining prescription drug insurance through Medicare Part D was associated with a 70% increase in the … health care services or health, as measured by functional status and self-reported health. Among those in poorer health, we …

(NDP), offer an incomplete picture by ignoring, for example, the value of leisure, home production, and the value of health … fluctuations that incorporates monetized changes in health of the population in the United States and globally during the past 50 …