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 …

Cesarean delivery for low-risk pregnancies is generally associated with worse health outcomes for infants and mothers … the year after birth, to study the causal health effects of cesarean delivery for low-risk first births. Building on …

for any permanent differences in productivity across workers, firms, and job matches. We also compare OLS and instrumental …

are affected by differences in employer productivity. Studies that focus on firm-specific productivity shocks and control … somewhere between a 0.5% and 1.5% increase in wages. Given the wide variation in firm-specific productivity, elasticities of …

Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of … longitudinal earnings records for their employees to study the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and … and firm-level productivity in Germany. In our preferred TFP estimates only a small fraction of this correlation is …