In this paper we investigate whether the presence of private insurance leads to improved health status. Using the … Health and Retirement study we focus on adults in late middle age who are nearing entry into Medicare. Estimation addresses … endogeneity of the insurance participation decision in health outcome regressions. Two models are tested, an instrumental …

Among health care systems with both public and private elements (such as in the US and Germany), an important question … is whether the type of health insurance exerts an impact on workers' careers. We exploit the unique German case of a two …-tier health care system to analyze whether opting out of public statutory health insurance and into private health insurance …

The growth of novel flexible work formats raises a number of questions about their effects upon health and the …-employment in terms of health. In addition to variation in work status of each individual over time, we also consider variation … driven by a number of novel instrumental variables. We also focus on an objective health outcome -hospital admissions- that …