We revisit the cyclical nature of birth rates and infant health and investigate to what extent the relationship between … through unemployment insurance (UI). We introduce a novel empirical test of standard neoclassical models of fertility that … provide novel evidence that infant health is countercyclical based on timing of conception, but procyclical based on time in …

There is much debate about the effects of pharmaceutical direct to consumer advertising (DTCA) on health care use. In …

Recent research has documented a link between consumer risk preferences over health and the willingness to pay (WTP …) for medical technologies. However, the absence of empirical health risk preference estimates so far limits the … individual risk preference parameters over health-related quality of life (HRQoL) that shed light on health risk attitudes and …

expressing health care-seeking behavior as a function of economic and behavioral fundamentals and highlighting the role of trust …. We report several findings. First, we document a strong association between higher levels of trust in the health care … scenarios, from routine check-ups to vaccinations. Second, the impact of trust on health care utilization is similar in …

behavior, and patient health. Every dollar Medicare spent on monitoring generated $24-29 in government savings. The majority of … the health of the marginal patient is harmed, indicating that monitoring primarily deters low-value care. Monitoring does …

to predictable changes in income (and family circumstances), and insurance value, which occurs when taxes and transfers … redistributive value of state tax-and-transfer programs sharply declines with income, but that the insurance value of transfers is …. Hence, the insurance value mitigates the incentives for mobility that would "undo" state redistributive spending …

's smoking all appear to contribute to the effect. We conclude that, by improving child health, unrestricted unconditional cash …

insurance" coalition analyses are presented. We find a strong negative relationship between average real income and …

Health insurance is increasingly provided through managed competition, in which subsidies for consumers and risk …