I study job lock and job push, the twin phenomena believed to be caused by employment-contingent health insurance (ECHI). Using variation in Medicaid eligibility among household members of male workers as a proxy for shifts in workers’ dependence on employment for health insurance, I estimate...

I study job lock and job push, the twin phenomena believed to be caused by employment-contingent health insurance (ECHI). Using variation in Medicaid eligibility among household members of male workers as a proxy for shifts in workers’ dependence on employment for health insurance, I estimate...

Public insurers face trade-offs between the individual and collective benefits they can provide given limited resources. Drug expenditure is one of the largest components of health spending and it is not clear cut what should be readily available. We study litigation as a safety valve using data...

Even before the COVID-19 crisis, rapidly growing healthcare expenditure was calling the sustainabi- lity of public finances into question. The pandemic has reinforced these concerns and also under- lined the importance of resilient healthcare systems. To highlight the need for economic policy...

This study adopts a quasi-experimental approach to empirically identify the discretion exercised by municipalities in conducting eligibility assessments for Japan’s Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI) program. It leverages the municipal merger phenomenon in the first half of the 2000s as a...

The following article analyses the relationship between the mental health index and the variables of the Environment, Social and Governance-ESG model in the Italian regions between 2004 and 2023. The econometric analysis is aimed at investigating in detail the relationships between the mental...

The following article analyses the relationship between the mental health index and the variables of the Environment, Social and Governance-ESG model in the Italian regions between 2004 and 2023. First of all, a static analysis is proposed aimed at identifying trends relating to mental health in...

Резюме: Предмет на настоящото изследване е правната характеристика на правото на здраве и съотношението му с правото на здравно осигуряване и правото на...

Fear of immigration enforcement may deter undocumented parents from enrolling their US citizen children in public health insurance. This paper examines the effect of providing legal status to parents through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program for health insurance coverage...

Japan’s national hospital system, which consists of a combination of private, national, prefectural and metropolitan hospitals, is the largest employers of the of the doctors. The article provides details on the women doctors’ discontinuous workforce participation in the Japanese hospital...