We estimate the effects of permanent legal status on the health of children born to immigrants in the United States …

Incomplete health insurance enrollment is a persistent U.S. challenge despite large subsidies. We ask whether hassles … find that a small hassle - a requirement to actively select a health plan to enroll - reduces take-up by 33%, a major …

Over half of the U.S. population receives health insurance through an employer, with employer premium contributions … the labor market to explore how this uniquely American approach to financing health insurance contributes to labor market … inequality. We consider a partial-equilibrium counterfactual in which employer-provided health insurance is instead financed by a …

find that Medicaid expansion reduced the probability that disabled respondents had employer-sponsored health insurance by …

Governments in many low- and middle-income countries are developing health insurance products as a complement to tax …-funded, subsidized provision of health care through publicly operated facilities. This paper discusses two rationales for this transition …. First, health insurance would boost fiscal revenues for health care, as post-treatment out-of-pocket payments to providers …

Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper … contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal …

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 …

We study the intergenerational health consequences of forced displacement and incarceration of Japanese Americans in … the US during WWII. Incarcerated mothers had babies who were less healthy at birth. This decrease in health represents a … intergenerational health, our results are a lower bound …

related to health. I review and assess the large and growing body of evidence on minimum wage effects on a wide variety of … health outcomes and health-related behaviors …The evidence on overall physical health is mixed. The findings on diet and obesity either point to beneficial or null …