The disparities in American healthcare coveragecontinue to spark many debates.Among those without insurance, theself-employed have been objects of concern since they have lower rates ofhealthcare coverage than their wage-earning counterparts.This studyexamines whether the lack of healthcare...

There is considerable public policy concern over the relatively low rates of health insurance coverage among the self-employed in the United States. Presumably, the reason for the concern is that their low rates of insurance lead to worse health outcomes. We use data from the Medical Expenditure...

Many employers have implemented dependent verification (DV) programs, which aim to reduce employee benefits costs by ensuring that ineligible persons are not enrolled in their health plan as dependents. We evaluate a DV program using a panel of health plan enrollment data from a large,...