Families in constrained economic circumstances resulting from economic shocks face difficult choices regarding how best to spend their diminished resources. As families strive to preserve their living standards, decisions regarding health care use and its allocation among family members may...

We use data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) for the years 2004 - 2012 to examine the impact of economic shocks on the family’s out-of-pocket health care spending burden. We define this burden as the share of family income devoted to out-of-pocket health care spending. In...

We use data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) for the years 2004 - 2012 to examine the impact of economic shocks on the family's out-of-pocket health care spending burden. We define this burden as the share of family income devoted to out-of-pocket health care spending. In...

Families in constrained economic circumstances resulting from economic shocks face difficult choices regarding how best to spend their diminished resources. As families strive to preserve their living standards, decisions regarding health care use and its allocation among family members may...

The relationship between neighborhoods of residence in young adulthood and health in mid-to-late life in the United States are examined using the 1968–2005 waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The sample consists of persons who were aged 20–30 in 1968 and are followed for a...