We study the effect of health insurance expansion on nutrition-related children's health outcomes. We exploit quasi … obesity and exerts positive and economically significant effects on some preventive health care utilization and behaviours …-random variation from an insurance expansion targeted at poor households in Peru. We find that access to insurance reduces childhood …

Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the … health behaviors for pregnant women, which is a group of particular interest given evidence of the importance of prenatal … health to later life outcomes. We exploit exogenous variation from the Medicaid income eligibility expansions for pregnant …

National Health Insurance Survey (NHIS) to compare absenteeism among overweight and obese workers to absenteeism among normal …In this paper, we examine whether the expansion of health insurance coverage brought on by the Patient Protection and … Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA), led to a decline in absenteeism among overweight and obese individuals. We use data from the …

The goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to achieve nearly universal health insurance coverage through a … Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to examine the impacts of the ACA on health care access, risky health behaviors, and … self-assessed health after two years. We estimate difference-in-difference-in-differences models that exploit variation in …

National Health Insurance Survey (NHIS) to compare absenteeism among overweight and obese workers to absenteeism among normal …In this paper, we examine whether the expansion of health insurance coverage brought on by the Patient Protection and … Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA), led to a decline in absenteeism among overweight and obese individuals. We use data from the …

Rwanda is among the few countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and the developing approaching universal health insurance … number of stand-alone community based health insurance schemes and gradually evolved into a unified social health insurance … plan. The country has also made remarkable progress in ameliorating child health, particularly since 2005, which coincides …

Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the … health behaviors for pregnant women, which is a group of particular interest given evidence of the importance of prenatal … health to later life outcomes. We exploit exogenous variation from the Medicaid income eligibility expansions for pregnant …

of children. We employ a quasi-experimental approach exploiting the location-specific timing of MMC implementation in … are concentrated among low-income children and absent for high-income children. We find no evidence of "crowd …

Medicaid coverage of children using state administrative data from Georgia. Our analysis focuses on children enrolled in … children were slightly more likely to exit during the first "high impact" recertification in which the enhanced citizenship … verification was binding than children whose first recertification occurred just prior to the reform. In addition, we observe a …