This paper examines the causal effect of childcare provision on grandparents’ health in the United States. We use the … childcare is detrimental to grandparents’ physical functioning and subjective health. We show that these effects increase with …. We estimate 2SLS regressions using data from the Health and Retirement Study. The results suggest that providing …

We use a Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) to evaluate the impact of cost-sharing on the use of health services. In … the Italian health system, individuals reaching age 65 and earning low incomes are given total exemption from cost …-sharing for health services consumption. Since the probability of exemption changes discontinuously at age 65, we use a Fuzzy RDD …

unknown whether mental health morbidity causally leads to addictive behaviours. This paper utilises a fixed effects … instrumental variables model, which is identified by time-varying sources of plausibly exogenous variations in mental health, and a … of smokers, and is slightly higher for males. Our findings highlight the importance of mental health screening and …

's cognitive development, but not on non-cognitive development or health. Regarding mechanisms, we estimate how breastfeeding …

Adolescent Health (Add Health), adults aged 25-34 and their high school best friends are focused on. An instrumental variable …

The growth of novel flexible work formats raises a number of questions about their effects upon health and the …-employment in terms of health. In addition to variation in work status of each individual over time, we also consider variation … driven by a number of novel instrumental variables. We also focus on an objective health outcome -hospital admissions- that …

Adolescent Health (Add Health), adults aged 25-34 and their high school best friends are focused on. An instrumental variable …