employment status) to identify the effects of increasing insurance coverage. We find that comprehensive health insurance has a …By reducing risk of large out-of-pocket medical expenses, comprehensive social health insurance may reduce households …-force participation. We use the natural experiment provided by the 1995 introduction of National Health Insurance in Taiwan to examine …

This study investigates the effects of maternal education on child's health and health behavior. We draw on a rich … effects on health behavior for adolescent daughters, but neither for adolescent sons nor for the health status of newborns. We …'s health behavior, assortative mating, household income, and child¿s schooling track as possible channels of the estimated …