Using the National Health Interview Survey (1989–2011), we document the Healthy Immigrant Effect (HIE)—immigrants are … in better health upon arrival in the United States than their native counterparts, but this health advantage erodes over … time—irrespective of the health measure, race/ethnicity, or gender. Further, most immigrant groups arrive lighter than …

Does living in a low-income neighborhood have negative health consequences? We document causal neighborhood effects on … health by exploiting a Spatial Dispersal Policy that quasi-randomly resettled refugees across neighborhoods from 1986 to 1998 … interaction with neighbors and the characteristics of the immediate environment are important determinants for health outcomes …

We present evidence on the health impacts and mechanisms of a large expansion in non-contributory health insurance in … health services without co-pays. Our intent-to-treat estimates show that SP reduced child mortality by 7% in poor … important implications for the ongoing health insurance expansions. …

People may have imperfect information about their health status and thus make suboptimal decisions in insurance …-economic status and poorer health are relatively less likely to realize how unhealthy they are and this overconfidence is associated … with no insurance participation. Accurate health information provided through physical examinations induces relatively …

The goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to achieve nearly universal health insurance coverage through a … Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to examine the impacts of the ACA on health care access, risky health behaviors, and … self-assessed health after two years. We estimate difference-in-difference-in-differences models that exploit variation in …

The goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to achieve nearly universal health insurance coverage through a … Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to examine the impacts of the ACA on health care access, risky health behaviors, and … self-assessed health after two years. We estimate difference-in-difference-in-differences models that exploit variation in …

We present evidence on the health impacts and mechanisms of a large expansion in non-contributory health insurance in … health services without co-pays. Our intent-to-treat estimates show that SP reduced child mortality by 7% in poor … important implications for the ongoing health insurance expansions …

This study examines the link between minimum wages and health outcomes by using the introduction of the National … Minimum Wage (NMW) in the United Kingdom in 1999 as an exogenous variation of earned income. I test for health effects by … improved several measures of health, including self-reported health status and the presence of health conditions. When …

effectiveness and prevalence are important if the government wants to maximize the health gain that it gets from its health budget …

access to health care, and equates to one life saved per 310 newly covered individuals. A cost-benefit analysis shows that …