This study examines the effect of a Medicaid disenrollment on employment, sources of health insurance coverage, health …, and health care utilization of childless adults using longitudinal data from the 2004 Panel of the Survey of Income and … disenrollment. Self-reported health and access to medical care worsened as hospitalization rates, doctor visits, and dentist visits …

Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the … of Medicaid on health behaviors for pregnant women. We exploit exogenous variation from the Medicaid income eligibility … expansions for pregnant women and children during late-1980s through mid-1990s to examine effects on several prenatal health …

This paper uses a policy discontinuity to identify the immediate and long-term effects of public health insurance … before. We use this discontinuity in eligibility to measure the impact of public health insurance on mortality by following …

rates. This paper examines the short- to medium-term changes in health, health care access, and health care utilization … longitudinal data on a wide variety of health-related measures and outcomes, we show that job loss results in worse self …-reported health, including mental health, but is not associated with statistically significant increases in a variety of specific …

We use the increases in health insurance coverage at age 65 generated by the rules of the Medicare program to evaluate … the effects of health insurance coverage on health related behaviors and outcomes. The rise in overall coverage at age 65 …. Finally, there are small impacts of reaching age 65 on self-reported health, with the largest gains among the groups that …

-employment, and a job offer to an industrial firm. Despite significant impacts on occupational choice, income, and health in the first … health found after one year also appear to be temporary. These results suggest that one-time and one …

There is considerable public policy concern over the relatively low rates of health insurance coverage among the self …-employed in the United States. Presumably, the reason for the concern is that their low rates of insurance lead to worse health …-earners differ with respect to insurance coverage and health status. Using a variety of ways to measure health status, we find that …

expensive and rarely covered by insurance, leading many states to adopt regulations mandating that health insurers cover them …