While it is well known that education strongly predicts health, less is known as to why. One reason might be that … education improves health-care decision making. In this paper we attempt to disentangle improved decision making from other … effects of education, and to quantify how large an impact it has on both a patientś demand for health services, and that …

This paper contributes to the small but growing literature evaluating the health effects of the Earned Income Tax … federal EITC expansion on several outcomes related to mental health and subjective well-being. The identification strategy … suggest that the 1990 EITC reform generated sizeable health benefits for low-skilled mothers. Such women experienced lower …