In 2006, the state of Massachusetts sanctioned the individual health insurance mandate and the expansion of health …. This finding may results from the expansion of health insurance coverage, which reduces the financial stress and improves … the mental health and wellbeing particularly among the low income families …

In this study, we document the effect of food stamp access on adult health care utilization. While the Food Stamp … increased the affordability of specialty health care. These findings have important implications for cost-benefit analyses of … the Food Stamp Program, as reductions in health care utilization because of food stamps may offset some of the program …

We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children’s labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks which …

consequential effects on maternal and newborn health in Mexico for 2008-2015. It models how changes in the obesity level of …

Recent research has documented a link between consumer risk preferences over health and the willingness to pay (WTP …) for medical technologies. However, the absence of empirical health risk preference estimates so far limits the … individual risk preference parameters over health-related quality of life (HRQoL) that shed light on health risk attitudes and …

This paper uses a health labor market lens to examine the impact of COVID-19 on health workers, as well as relevant … COVID-19 on health workers. It examines the relevant issues under the lens of a health labor market. In particular, the … paper interprets this information and knowledge by focusing on the supply, demand, and mismatches in a health labor market …

This study for the European Parliament Policy Department examines the regulation for a European Health Data Space (EHDS …), proposed by the European Commission in May 2022. The EHDS introduces mandatory rules for electronic health record to facilitate … user access and portability of personal health data (primary use) and pooling of health data for research and policy …

Individuals seeking health care in Senegal, face different options in terms of which type of health service to use … use of health care providers in Senegal using a conditional Logit model on 8,395 individuals from the second Senegalese … of health providers’ use, but individual and household characteristics like location, education, and gender are also …

This paper looks at the links between health and socio-economic status. It is generally assumed by non-economists that … it is low SES that causes ill health, but this paper asks whether the causation might also work the other way. Even if … the direction of causation is that SES mainly affects health, what dimensions of SES actually matter — the financial …

Rapid urbanization could have positive and negative health effects, such that the net impact on population health is … and individual level longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey to estimate the net health impact of … to identify the treatment effect of urbanization on the self-assessed health of individuals. The results reveal important …