effectiveness and prevalence are important if the government wants to maximize the health gain that it gets from its health budget …

Most existing work on the demand for health insurance focuses on employees’ decisions to enroll in employer … health plan among a large sample of uninsured Americans. The experiment yields price elasticities of around one …

We use a social experiment to estimate the impact of expanding health insurance coverage on the health and mortality of … newly entitled SSDI beneficiaries who lacked health insurance. Our intent-to-treat estimates show that expanding health … insurance has significant effects on self-reported health at one year following health insurance enrollment, positive effects on …

India’s health care and health financing provision is characterized by too little Government spending on health, meager … health insurance coverage, declining public health care use contrasted by highest levels of private out-of-pocket health … framework of health insurance and health care revisits the existing health insurance schemes and assesses the health insurance …

We exploit a sharp change in the likelihood that an individual is covered by health insurance when he/she turns 19 … years of age to study how health insurance affects reported health status. We find that an individual is 6 percentage points … less likely to have health insurance when he/she turns 19. Using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design, we find that …

remain on parents’ health insurance until turning 26 – took effect in September 2010. We estimate this mandate's impacts on … numerous outcomes related to health care access, preventive care utilization, risky behaviors, and self-assessed health. We …. For the full sample, the dependent coverage provision increased the probabilities of having health insurance, a primary …