study is on determining whether a lack of health insurance significantly impacted vaccination propensities. If it is indeed … the case that a lack of health insurance mattered, this would be informative for policymakers since they tried to address … vaccines were made available free of cost to the public in the United States, irrespective of their insurance status. A policy …

study is on determining whether a lack of health insurance significantly impacted vaccination propensities. If it is indeed … the case that a lack of health insurance mattered, this would be informative for policymakers since they tried to address … vaccines were made available free of cost to the public in the United States, irrespective of their insurance status. A policy …

impact population health? To answer this question, we leverage the fact that U.S. states that enjoy excess representation in … by excess representation had substantial impacts on population health. For each $1,000 increase in federal fiscal aid per …-wide health disparities over the course of the pandemic …

I consider the popular argument of Medicaid crowding out demand for private long-term care insurance. I show that this … neglects a large value of the program in providing access to care. I show that private insurance is unable to offer a similar … value. I posit that the low take-up of private insurance is due to a dilemma prevalent in - but not exclusive to - the …

We revisit the cyclical nature of birth rates and infant health and investigate to what extent the relationship between … through unemployment insurance (UI). We introduce a novel empirical test of standard neoclassical models of fertility that … provide novel evidence that infant health is countercyclical based on timing of conception, but procyclical based on time in …

The 21st century has been a period of rising inequality in both income and health. In this study, we find that … the largest health gains during the last several decades. Nor was higher dispersion in mortality caused entirely by the … that high-income states in 1992 were better able to enact public health strategies and adopt behaviors that, over the next …

This paper focuses on the question: Does public or private control of health care lead to greater healthcare system … efficiency? The data analysis demonstrates a curvilinear relationship between government control over health care and health care … system inefficiency and that, as a result, a hybrid approach to health care which takes advantage of a mixture of both …

This paper compares health care systems. It looks beyond normal academic, political, or journalistic rhetoric, by …. The paper finds that a number of myths and common believes in health care policy are not supported by emprical evidence …. Global health care policy, as well as health care policy in United States, needs to look at statistical data and profound …