instrument for funding health insurance for the working poor. The vast majority of those who benefit from pay or play mandates … which require employers to either provide appropriate health insurance for their workers or pay a flat per hour tax to … offset the cost of health care live in families with incomes twice the poverty line or more and, depending on how coverage is …

: worker health. To study this question, we use data on lesser-skilled workers from the 1993-2014 Behavioral Risk Factor … wage increases lead to improvements in overall worker health. In fact, we find some evidence that minimum wage increases … may decrease some aspects of health, especially among unemployed male workers. We also find evidence that increases reduce …

minimum wage on infant health. Using data on the universe of births in the US over 24 years, we find that an increase in the … pregnancy, which are some channels through which minimum wage can affect infant health …

effects of the minimum wage on child health. To obtain estimates, we use data from the National Survey of Children’s Health in … associated with a significant improvement in child health. A particularly interesting finding is that much of the benefits of a …

We develop a pair of risk measures, health and mortality delta, for the universe of life and health insurance products …. A life-cycle model of insurance choice simplifies to replicating the optimal health and mortality delta through a … portfolio of insurance products. We estimate the model to explain the observed variation in health and mortality delta implied …

.S. population. A key feature of this method is its simplicity - it only requires data on out-of-pocket (OOP) health care spending … and total health care spending and does not require detailed knowledge of health insurance benefit design. We apply our … the current design of health plans may put the health and financial well-being of the chronically ill at risk …

This paper constructs a dynamic model of health insurance to evaluate the short- and long run effects of policies that … prevent firms from conditioning wages on health conditions of their workers, and that prevent health insurance companies from … charging individuals with adverse health conditions higher insurance premia. Our study is motivated by recent US legislation …

care models of health insurance in wealthy countries, Colombia's Régimen Subsidiado is a publicly financed insurance … financial risk while increasing the use of traditionally under-utilized preventive services - with measurable health gains …