. 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 …

-imposed lock-downs may not present a clear trade-off between GDP and public health, as commonly believed, even though its immediate …

We utilize panel data from the Health and Retirement Study to investigate the impact of retirement on physical and … mental health, life satisfaction, and health care utilization. Because poor health can induce retirement, we instrument for … test. We find strong evidence that retirement improves both health and life satisfaction. While the impact on life …

health outcomes or healthcare quality, and to explore how to expand the empirical opportunities for measuring such outcomes … using U.S. national survey data. To these ends, the paper provides an overview of Grossman's seminal health production …

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 …

medical preventive measures improve expected health, they do not save money. Various lifestyle and early childhood … interventions, however, may both save money and improve health. Second, preventive measures, including medical and lifestyle …, generalizations in everyday discourse about the value of prevention can be overly broad. Third, health insurance coverage for medical …

In 2006, Massachusetts passed health care reform legislation designed to achieve nearly universal coverage through a … from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we provide evidence that health care reform in Massachusetts led to … better overall self-assessed health. Various robustness checks and placebo tests support a causal interpretation of the …

We study how the health and health insurance coverage of Mexican immigrants change with time in the US. Cross … and fixed effects methods show that time in the US is unrelated to health insurance coverage. Both cross sectional and … longitudinal analyses provide evidence of unhealthy assimilation--self-reported health declines slightly with time in the US …