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 …

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 …

: worker health. To study this question, we use data on lesser-skilled workers from the 1993-2014 Behavioral Risk Factor … wage increases lead to improvements in overall worker health. In fact, we find some evidence that minimum wage increases … may decrease some aspects of health, especially among unemployed male workers. We also find evidence that increases reduce …

Recent research has documented a link between consumer risk preferences over health and the willingness to pay (WTP …) for medical technologies. However, the absence of empirical health risk preference estimates so far limits the … individual risk preference parameters over health-related quality of life (HRQoL) that shed light on health risk attitudes and …

expressing health care-seeking behavior as a function of economic and behavioral fundamentals and highlighting the role of trust …. We report several findings. First, we document a strong association between higher levels of trust in the health care … scenarios, from routine check-ups to vaccinations. Second, the impact of trust on health care utilization is similar in …

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 …