. Workers hit by a health shock at high-quality firms are less likely to take up disability insurance or exit the labor force …We study the role that firms play in social insurance benefit uptake after their workers experience health shocks …-employee administrative data linked to individual-level health records, we find that firm responses to worker health shocks are heterogeneous …

household income and consumption are fully insured against health shocks even without access to health insurance. Household …This paper provides empirical evidence on the role of public health insurance in mitigating adverse outcomes associated … with health shocks. Exploiting the rollout of a universal health insurance program in rural China, I find that total …