Health insurance is once again on the policy agenda, and it is déjà vu all over again. There are the same statistics and anecdotes about the uninsured. There are the same reports by government agencies, think tanks, and do-gooder organizations. There are the same policy entrepreneurs, pushing...

A large literature examines the effect of health insurance on mortality. We add to this literature by emphasizing two challenges in using quasi-experimental variation provided by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage expansions to study mortality. The first is non-parallel pre-treatment trends....

Abstract for Appendix: This appendix presents additional results to accompany the underlying article, Black, Espin-Sanchez, French, and Litvak (2016), The Long-Term Effect of Health Insurance on Near-Elderly Health and Mortality.The underlying article is available on SSRN at...

We use the best available longitudinal dataset, the Health and Retirement Survey, and a battery of causal inference methods to provide both central estimates and bounds on the effect of health insurance on health and mortality among the near elderly (initial age 50-61) over an 18-year period....