We estimate the effects of permanent legal status on the health of children born to immigrants in the United States …

The goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to achieve nearly universal health insurance coverage through a … Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to examine the impacts of the ACA on health care access, risky health behaviors, and … self-assessed health after two years. We estimate difference-in-difference-in-differences models that exploit variation in …

and out-of-pocket) controlling for medical conditions, demographics, health, and insurance, separately by sex, education … not explained by differences in health, insurance status, or ability-to-pay, suggesting they arise due to discrimination …

Over half of the U.S. population receives health insurance through an employer, with employer premium contributions … the labor market to explore how this uniquely American approach to financing health insurance contributes to labor market … inequality. We consider a partial-equilibrium counterfactual in which employer-provided health insurance is instead financed by a …

Incomplete health insurance enrollment is a persistent U.S. challenge despite large subsidies. We ask whether hassles … find that a small hassle - a requirement to actively select a health plan to enroll - reduces take-up by 33%, a major …

Over half of the U.S. population receives health insurance through an employer, with employer premium contributions … the labor market to explore how this uniquely American approach to financing health insurance contributes to labor market … inequality. We consider a partial-equilibrium counterfactual in which employer-provided health insurance is instead financed by a …

find that Medicaid expansion reduced the probability that disabled respondents had employer-sponsored health insurance by …

Early work on consumer health insurance preference modeling suggests that workers sorting among employment alternatives … reflect their tastes for employment-sponsored health insurance. Focusing on examining the role of health insurance preferences … on enrollment decisions into employment sponsored health insurance, this past literature assumes the effects of health …

-based health insurance policies in the United States as natural experiments. I first exploit the discrete change in insurance … with statistically significant deterioration in attitudes towards the necessity of health insurance among young adults who … are affected by this policy the most. Next, I show that gaining health insurance at 65 due to the onset of Medicare does …