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 …

selection problem hinges largely on how health care costs are distributed across market participants. Theoretically, I show that …

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 …

the Health and Retirement Study. We show that respondents subject to narrow framing are substantially less likely to buy …

, as a result, higher cost-sharing will lead to worse health and higher downstream costs through hospitalizations. We use …

There are two types of selection models in the health economics literature. One focuses on choice between a fixed set …

. I focus on the individual health insurance market, which includes plans purchased through exchanges as well as plans … me to estimate the welfare impact of the ACA on participants in the individual health insurance market in each state. I …