The primary goal of the federal dependent coverage mandate was to increase health insurance coverage among young adults, the group with the lowest prevalence of health insurance coverage. To understand the full impacts of the federal dependent coverage mandate, it is important to evaluate how...

Abstract We estimate to what extent a large scale health care reform disproportionately affects the mortality rate of boys in the context of a developing country with cultural preferences favoring boys. We use arguably exogenous variations due to a health care reform—the National Health...

We study the effects of work limiting health issues in combination with adverse local economic conditions on career advancement using a US panel data set that follows a cohort of people from 1987 (ages 22–30) to 2014 (ages 49–57). We find that work limiting health issues decrease the...