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 …

-à-vis non-UIP districts in 1985-1990. We find that exposure to UIP in infancy increases weekly wages by 13.8% (95% CI: 7.6% to …

attainment. Eighty percent of mothers in the complier group found employment within a year, and for many, total income rose … despite reduced transfers. We find precise zero effects on total health expenditures for both mothers and children. However …, composition changes, including fewer family physician visits, indicate that mothers had less time to seek health care. We find …

substantial and heterogeneous employment responses that increased average income despite reduced transfers. We find zero effects … on aggregate health expenditures, but mothers saw reduced preventative care and increased mental health treatment …, consistent with the transition to employment elevating time pressure and stress. We find no effect on teenagers' education and …

observed disability rates result from gradual deteriorations in health. We find no direct effect of health shocks on employment …This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history … model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data …

into differences in the probability of employment, occupation and earnings for adults in the UK. We also examine whether … there are differences in broader measures of well-being such as self-perceived health and mental health. We find that the … significant differences in terms of occupation, earnings and self-perceived health and mental health. It is not clear why this …