Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the … health behaviors for pregnant women, which is a group of particular interest given evidence of the importance of prenatal … health to later life outcomes. We exploit exogenous variation from the Medicaid income eligibility expansions for pregnant …

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 …

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 …

Despite a strong interest in entrepreneurship, economists have devoted little attention to the role of health insurance … availability. I investigate the impact of a unique policy experiment - New Jersey’s Individual Health Coverage Plan - on self … traditional employment and health insurance by facilitating access to coverage that was not employer-linked. I find evidence that …

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 …

In Germany, private health insurance covers more innovative and costly treatments than public insurance. Moreover …, privately insured individuals are treated preferentially by doctors. In this article, I use subjective health data to examine … whether these superior features of private insurance actually transfer into better health. I focus on German adolescents who …

France’s health-care system offers high-quality care. Average health outcomes are good, public satisfaction with the … health-care system is high, and average household out-of-pocket expenditures are low. As in other OECD countries, technology … by care providers, tackle the high spending on pharmaceuticals, strengthen the role of health insurers as purchasing …

impact of home births on the health of low-risk newborns using data from the Netherlands, the only developed country where … contributing to these health gains. -- medical technology ; birth ; home birth ; mortality …

There is much debate about the effects of pharmaceutical direct to consumer advertising (DTCA) on health care use. In …

We examine the personal health situation and how the complexities thereof affect the elderly Austrians' willingness to … accept electronic health records (EHR). Using data from the sixth wave of the SHARE survey in Austria, we find the complexity … of individual health problems and the social integration of individuals influencing the acceptance of EHR. The more the …