A large literature examines the effect of health insurance on mortality. We contribute by emphasizing two challenges in using the Affordable Care Act (ACA)'s quasi-experimental variation to study mortality. The first is non-parallel pretreatment trends. Rising mortality in Medicaid non-expansion...

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....

This Appendix contains additional methods details and results for Black, Hollingsworth, Nunes, and Simon, The Effect of Health Insurance on Mortality: Power Analysis and What Can We Learn from the Affordable Care Act Coverage Expansions? (working paper 2018), at...

A large literature examines the effect of health insurance on mortality. We contribute by emphasizing two challenges in using the Affordable Care Act (ACA)'s quasi-experimental variation to study mortality. The first is non-parallel pretreatment trends. Rising mortality in Medicaid non-expansion...

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....

This Appendix provides data and methodology details and additional results for Zhang, Atanasov, Meurer, Whittle, Barreto Parra, and Black, Effects of Short-Term Air Pollution Exposure on U.S. COVID-19 Mortality (working paper 2022). The underlying paper is available from SSRN at...

ImportancePrior studies have shown that long-term exposure to air pollution predicts higher COVID-19 mortality, but there is limited evidence on the effect of short-term fluctuations in air pollution levels. ObjectiveTo determine whether short-term changes in county air-pollution levels predict...