from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we provide evidence that health care reform in Massachusetts led to …In 2006, Massachusetts passed health care reform legislation designed to achieve nearly universal coverage through a … better overall self-assessed health. Various robustness checks and placebo tests support a causal interpretation of the …

One of the largest and most urgent problems facing countries today - especially the United States - is health care … selling out the health of its population. Nations’ attempts at creating workable health care systems result in regulatory and … interests. Differing health outcomes among nations suggest that all health care delivery and insurance mechanisms are not equal …

In 2006, the state of Massachusetts sanctioned the individual health insurance mandate and the expansion of health … insurance coverage through Healthcare Reform Law. I design a quasi-experimental study using the Behavioral Risk Factor …. This finding may results from the expansion of health insurance coverage, which reduces the financial stress and improves …

from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we provide evidence that health care reform in Massachusetts led to …In 2006, Massachusetts passed health care reform legislation designed to achieve nearly universal coverage through a … better overall self-assessed health. Various robustness checks and placebo tests support a causal interpretation of the …

We study how the health and health insurance coverage of Mexican immigrants change with time in the US. Cross … and fixed effects methods show that time in the US is unrelated to health insurance coverage. Both cross sectional and … longitudinal analyses provide evidence of unhealthy assimilation--self-reported health declines slightly with time in the US …