This paper examines the effect of a decline in health on the savings and portfolio choice of young, working individuals … health, controlling for variables such as income, age, and out-of-pocket medical expenses. Unlike many previous papers, which … dismiss health and portfolio choice associations among retired individuals on the basis of unobserved heterogeneity, we find …

health care are increasingly experiencing difficulties in meeting up this challenge. The concept of Medical Savings Accounts … capacity of the individual, Medical Savings Accounts are normally introduced in combination with health insurance covering …In times of ever-rising health expenditures it is becoming more and more obvious that conventional models for funding …

Das Konzept der Medical Savings Accounts als Instrument zur Finanzierung von Gesundheitssystemen hat in den letzten … einzelne Länder bisher mit der Konzeption der Medical Savings Accounts gemacht haben. Außerdem wird anhand erster Ergebnisse … vorgeschlagen, dieses Konzept zur Lösung der Finanzierungsprobleme der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung auf Deutschland zu …

Employers' standard practice of including legal spouses in health insurance is likely to place people in unmarried … Population Survey confirm that people with unmarried partners are two to three times more likely to lack health insurance than …

We investigate the effect of health insurance on labor market transitions in and out of self-employment as well as on … the likelihood of being self-employed. We consider the role of individual health insurance coverage along with that from a …-tax health insurance premium on the entry rate, with no effect on exits from self-employment or the likelihood of being self-employed. …

We investigate the effect of health insurance on labor market transitions in and out of self-employment as well as on … the likelihood of being self-employed. We consider the role of individual health insurance coverage along with that from a …-tax health insurance premium on the entry rate, with no effect on exits from self-employment or the likelihood of being self …

We analyze the effect of employer-sponsored health insurance premiums on employment and annual wages in the US using a … malpractice legislation over time and within states as the source of identifying variation in the health insurance premiums, we … estimate the causal effects of rising health insurance premiums on employment and annual wages. We find that a 10% increase in …