One of the most robust findings in health economics is that higher-educated individuals tend to be in better health …. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES …

strong ties across generations. However, health status, arguably a more critical component of welfare, has largely been … ignored. We fill this void by providing the first estimates of the Intergenerational Health Association (IHA) that are …-sectional units. Adjusting for only age and gender, we estimate an IHA of 0.3 indicating that about one third of a parent's health …

This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as … provided at family health centers, which operate on a walk-in basis and are located within the neighborhoods in close proximity … health. …

This paper examines satisfaction with various aspects of health care by type of health plan among three groups of … health-plan enrollees: those with a consumer-driven health plan (CDHP), those with a high-deductible health plan (HDHP), and … in Health Care Survey, an online survey that examines issues surrounding consumer-directed health care, including the …

US government investments in health information technology (IT) reflect the significant promise of digitization for … improving quality and efficiency in health care. Previous studies of the impact of health IT have focused on the hospital …

We re-examine the impact of environmental taxation on health and output, in the presence of labor market frictions. Our … taxation on health. We also demonstrate that rising abatement expenditures as a way of tightening the environmental policy … would be better for health than increasing environmental tax in the presence of market labor imperfections …

-examine the impact of environmental taxation on health and output, in the presence of labor market frictions. Our main findings … economy such that assuming perfect labor market leads to over-estimate the positive impact of environmental taxation on health … for health than increasing environmental tax in the presence of market labor imperfections …

strong ties across generations. However, health status, arguably a more critical component of welfare, has largely been … ignored. We fill this void by providing the first estimates of the Intergenerational Health Association (IHA) that are …-sectional units. Adjusting for only age and gender, we estimate an IHA of 0.3 indicating that about one third of a parent's health …

The right to health has been repeatedly recognized as one of the core human rights, essential for human functioning …, human dignity, economic well-being, and development. But the right to health continues to elude hundreds of millions and … health in developing countries. Achieving universal health coverage, before the additional costs of Covid-19, would require …

Facing unprecedented uncertainty and drastic trade-offs between public health and other forms of human well …, economics, and related fields (e.g., statistics, engineering, and health policy) to discuss approaches to modeling economy …