We examine whether economic downturns are beneficial to health outcomes of newborn infants in developed countries. For … this we use merged population-wide registers on health and economic and demographic variables, including the national … approach that exploits regional variation in unemployment and compares babies born to the same parents so as to deal with …

of health problems among individuals with poor labour market prospects. We use register data covering the entire Swedish … population, including very detailed information on health. …

We examine how a key provision of the Affordable Care Act - the expansion of Medicaid eligibility - affected health … insurance coverage and improved access to health care among unemployed workers. We then test whether this strengthening of the … safety net affected transitions from unemployment to employment or out of the labor force. We find no meaningful statistical …

support. We also find evidence of unemployment scarring effects: substantial experience of unemployment has long …

Do households value access to free health insurance when making labor supply decisions? We answer this question using … the introduction of universal health insurance in Mexico, the Seguro Popular (SP), in 2002. The SP targeted individuals … not covered by Social Security and broke the link between access to health care and job contract. We start by using the …