Universal Investment in Infants and Long-Run Health: Evidence from Denmark's 1937 Home Visiting Program

By Jonas Hjort, Mikkel Sølvsten, and Miriam Wüst

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, October 2017

This paper examines the long-run health effects of a universal infant health intervention, the 1937 Danish home visiting program, which targeted all infants. Using administrative population data and exploiting variation in the timing of implementation acr...

SSI for Disabled Immigrants: Why Do Ethnic Networks Matter?

By Delia Furtado and Nikolaos Theodoropoulos

American Economic Review, May 2013

Immigrants residing among many coethnics are especially likely to receive SSI for a disability when they belong to high SSI take-up immigrant groups. After showing that this relationship cannot be fully explained by differences in health, we consider the ...

Household Asset Allocation, Offspring Education, and the Sandwich Generation

By Vicki L. Bogan

American Economic Review, May 2015

This paper finds households with children and elderly dependents, the "Sandwich Generation," significantly reduce both college savings and stockholding. Having any elderly dependents decreases the probability of both stockholding and college savings by tw...

Disentangling the Effects of Health Reform in Massachusetts: How Important Are the Special Provisions for Young Adults?

By Sharon K. Long, Alshadye Yemane, and Karen Stockley

American Economic Review, May 2010

The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Subsequent Health Outcomes: An Analysis of SIPP Data

By Douglas Almond and Bhashkar Mazumder

American Economic Review, May 2005

Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality: Evidence from the NOx Budget Program

By Olivier Deschênes, Michael Greenstone, and Joseph S. Shapiro

American Economic Review, October 2017

The demand for air quality depends on health impacts and defensive investments, but little research assesses the empirical importance of defenses. A rich quasi-experiment suggests that the Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) Budget Program (NBP), a cap-and-trade market...

Battle Scars? The Puzzling Decline in Employment and Rise in Disability Receipt among Vietnam Era Veterans

By David H. Autor, Mark G. Duggan, and David S. Lyle

American Economic Review, May 2011

Using Current Population Survey and US Army administrative data, we document that between 2000 and 2010, the employment rate of Vietnam era veterans fell markedly relative to non-veterans of the same cohorts while simultaneously their enrollment increased...

Environmental Health Risks and Housing Values: Evidence from 1,600 Toxic Plant Openings and Closings

By Janet Currie, Lucas Davis, Michael Greenstone, and Reed Walker

American Economic Review, February 2015

Regulatory oversight of toxic emissions from industrial plants and understanding about these emissions' impacts are in their infancy. Applying a research design based on the openings and closings of 1,600 industrial plants to rich data on housing marke...

The Importance of Group Coverage: How Tax Policy Shaped U.S. Health Insurance

By Melissa A. Thomasson

American Economic Review, September 2003

Wealth, Health, and Health Services in Rural Rajasthan

By Abhijit Banerjee, Angus Deaton, and Esther Duflo

American Economic Review, May 2004

Medical Compliance and Income-Health Gradients

By Anne Case, Ingrid Le Roux, and Alicia Menendez

American Economic Review, May 2004

The National Longitudinal Surveys

By Michael R. Pergamit, Charles R. Pierret, Donna S. Rothstein, and Jonathan R. Veum

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2001

This article describes the design features and topical coverage of the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS). The NLS are perhaps the oldest and most widely used panel surveys of individuals in the United States. These surveys were started in the mid-1960s ...

Battling over Jobs: Occupational Licensing in Health Care

By Morris M. Kleiner

American Economic Review, May 2016

The goal of this paper is to outline the major tensions between the monopoly face of licensing versus potential consumer protection goals of occupational regulation in the health care industry. Historically, health care occupations limited supply as a met...

The Roma/Non-Roma Test Score Gap in Hungary

By Gábor Kertesi and Gábor Kézdi

American Economic Review, May 2011

This paper documents and decomposes the test score gap between Roma and non-Roma 8th graders in Hungary in 2006. Our data connect national standardized test scores to an individual panel survey with detailed data on ethnicity and family background. The te...

Symposium on Health Care Reform

[Symposium: Health Care Reform]

By Joseph P. Newhouse

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1994

The papers in this symposium focus on two major issues of health economics in the context of President Clinton's Health Security Act: cost containment and labor market effects of financing insurance. The act proposes to limit public and private spending; ...

A Guide to Health Care Reform

[Symposium: Health Care Reform]

By David M. Cutler

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1994

There are four rationales for health care reform: increasing the efficiency of health delivery; reforming the market for health insurance; providing universal coverage; and reducing the federal deficit. These goals are reflected in most reform proposals. ...

Nonprofit Organizations in the Health Sector

By Richard G. Frank and David S. Salkever

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1994

Government appears to both promote and mistrust nonprofit organizations in the health sector. Tax exemptions, subsidies, and preferential treatment in contracts support these organizations. Legislation that links the supply of charity care to tax exemptio...

Adult Antiretroviral Therapy and Child Health: Evidence from Scale-Up in Zambia

By Adrienne M. Lucas and Nicholas L. Wilson

American Economic Review, May 2013

One in five Zambian children lives with an HIV/AIDS-infected adult. We estimate the effect that the availability of adult antiretroviral therapy (ART) has on the health of such children. Using a triple difference specification, we find that adult access t...

The Evolution of Medical Spending Risk

[Symposium: Household Risks]

By Jonathan Gruber and Helen Levy

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2009

How has the economic risk of health spending changed over time for U.S. households? We describe trends in aggregate health spending in the United States and how private insurance markets and public insurance programs have changed over time. We then presen...

Changes in the Consumption, Income, and Well-Being of Single Mother Headed Families

By Bruce D. Meyer and James X. Sullivan

American Economic Review, December 2008

We investigate well-being changes for single mother headed families targeted by recent tax and welfare reforms. Measured income changes sharply differ from consumption changes. We examine disaggregated consumption, time use, and health insurance coverage....