"deadline effect" - a spike in spending in the final year of the program - among participants of the RAND Health Insurance …

Early life conditions have been linked to various domains of later life health, including cardiovascular outcomes … health are related to hypertension, although there is cross country heterogeneity in these effects. I account for potential … omitted variable bias by using aggregate measures of public health at birth, which are plausibly exogenous to the individual …

Evidence for the short-term impact of early intervention on childhood health is weak and inconsistent. Using rigorous … programme on child health. The treatment provides mentoring visits from pregnancy until school entry to improve child outcomes … through positively affecting parenting. In a context where socioeconomic inequalities in health have yet to emerge, modest …

The relationship between recessions and health is mixed, with some evidence from the most recent financial crisis … the Irish crisis of 2008, to test the impact of economic expansion and contraction on mothers physical and mental health … and health behaviours. Three waves of data from the Irish Lifeways Cohort Study for the period 2001-2011, and local area …

This study examines the determinants of demand for private health insurance in Ireland. Survey data commissioned by the … Health Insurance Authority from 2009 to 2017 are used to estimate multivariate models of health insurance demand. The results … show that older and sicker individuals are more likely to have private health insurance. Irish-born are found to be more …

Employer-provided health insurance in the United States is suspected of restricting job mobility, resulting in "job … whether employer-based health insurance discourages job mobility by exploiting the discontinuity created at age 65 through the …

home environment of disadvantaged families, on child health in the first 3 years of life. We recruited and randomized 233 … commencing at 2 years. Maternal reports of child health are assessed at 6, 12, 18, 24, and 36 months. Treatment effects are … health (10.0 pp), hospitalizations (8.2 pp), immunizations (8.6 pp), chest infections (12.2 pp) and the number of health …