There is much debate about the effects of pharmaceutical direct to consumer advertising (DTCA) on health care use. In …

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 …

government-provided health insurance programs such as Medicaid …In this study, we document the effect of Food Stamp access on adult health care utilization. While Food Stamps is one … or mental health, or due to individuals with common chronic health conditions, leaving open the possibility that changes …

study how a wave of mergers that led to the shutdown of one third of all Swedish maternity wards affected the health of … Sweden over two decades, we show that the closures negatively affected the health of mothers, while effects on infant health …

: worker health. To study this question, we use data on lesser-skilled workers from the 1993-2014 Behavioral Risk Factor … wage increases lead to improvements in overall worker health. In fact, we find some evidence that minimum wage increases … may decrease some aspects of health, especially among unemployed male workers. We also find evidence that increases reduce …

based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) to assess their impact on self-assessed health status and on the use of health care …' perceived health and their access to a number of health services. Results suggest that the introduction of market incentives via … a fixed-price payment system does not lead to worst health perceptions. Instead, the reform marked a moderate decrease …

VLBW cutoff have better short- and long-term health, and higher math test scores in 9th grade. We next investigate … spillover effects on siblings and find no evidence of an impact on their health outcomes. However, we find substantial positive …

expressing health care-seeking behavior as a function of economic and behavioral fundamentals and highlighting the role of trust …. We report several findings. First, we document a strong association between higher levels of trust in the health care … scenarios, from routine check-ups to vaccinations. Second, the impact of trust on health care utilization is similar in …

's cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children …'s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. These results suggest that the effect of parents' education on … children's education may work partly through the positive effect that parental education has on children's skills and health …