health. An additional analysis on the Tennessee healthcare reform supports our findings' external validity. Using the reform … as an instrument for health insurance coverage, we estimate its large impact on overall life-satisfaction. Our results …

In 2007, China launched a subsidized voluntary public health insurance program, the Urban Resident Basic Medical …. We estimate the impact of this program on health care utilization and expenditure using 2006 and 2009 waves of the China … Health and Nutrition Survey. We find that this program has significantly increased the utilization of formal medical services …

As of the end of 2017, 3.4 million Syrian refugees lived in Turkey. These refugees left a country where the health …, brought certain infectious diseases to the hosting communities, and have a high incidence of health care utilization. Moreover …, they have much higher fertility rates than natives (5.3 to 2.3). We examine the effect of Syrian refugees on the health …

When examining the impacts of exposure to air pollution on health outcomes, researchers usually carry out "placebo … tests" to provide evidence in support of their identification assumption. In general, this exercise targets health … falsification tests. If healthcare infrastructure is limited, when we observe health shocks such as those driven by air pollution …

healthcare utilization and health outcomes among non-COVID–19 patients. Using monthly panel data of nationally representative …-of-pocket medical costs, and perceived health. At its peak, doctor visits decreased by 30% and out-of-pocket medical spending decreased …-reported health and sleep quality, COVID–19 increased depressive symptoms by 4%. We argue that it is imperative to monitor COVID–19's …

from conception to childhood – affect a child’s health trajectory in the long-term. By the 21st century, a wide body of … research had emerged, incorporating the original ‘Fetal Origins Hypothesis’ into the ‘Developmental Origins of Health and … Disease’. Evidence from OECD countries suggests that health inequalities are strongly correlated with many dimensions of socio …

We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we … investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better … female health speeds up the demographic transition and thereby the take-off toward sustained economic growth. By contrast …

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for …

When a health shock hits a location, the healthcare infrastructure needs to be adjusted to meet the increased demand … consequences of health shocks induced by air pollution in a megacity in the developing world: Sao Paulo, Brazil. Using daily data … practice of using health outcomes unrelated to pollution as "placebo tests" in studies on the effects of air pollution might be …

Health screening provides information on disease risk and diagnosis, but whether this promotes health is unclear. We … estimate the impacts of the National Health Screening Program in Korea for diabetes, obesity, and hyperlipidemia. In this …