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 …

Increasingly in U.S. public insurance programs, the state finances and regulates competing, capitated private health … health disparities and corresponding cost differences between blacks and Hispanics (who make up the large majority of …-Hispanic infant health disparities widen under MMC (e.g., the black-Hispanic mortality gap grows by 42 percent) and black mothers' pre …

going on public assistance. These changes may have affected the health and health behaviors of these women. To date, there … welfare policies, and three health behaviors --smoking, drinking, and exercise and two self-reported measures of health --days … in poor mental health, and overall health status. The results of our study reveal that changes in the caseload had little …

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 investigates the effects of health insurance and new antiviral treatments on HIV testing rates among the U …

remain on parents’ health insurance until turning 26 – took effect in September 2010. We estimate this mandate’s impacts on … numerous outcomes related to health care access, preventive care utilization, risky behaviors, and self-assessed health. We …. For the full sample, the dependent coverage provision increased the probabilities of having health insurance, a primary …

Policy-makers have argued that providing public health insurance coverage to the uninsured lowers long-run costs by …

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 …