This paper estimates the long-term health effects of Vietnam-Era military service using Australia's National … conscription lotteries for identification. Our primary contribution is the quality and breadth of our health outcomes. We use … significant detrimental effects on a number of morbidity measures. Hearing and mental health appear to be particularly affected. …

This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as … provided at family health centers, which operate on a walk-in basis and are located within the neighborhoods in close proximity … health. …

This paper analyses the impact of health, pension systems and longevity on savings. It uses a simple life-cycle model … embodying social transfers (health care and pension expenditures) and changes in longevity to determine the level of household … of view of incentive to save, health transfers have a similar impact as pension replacement rates. Therefore, welfare …

We develop a pair of risk measures, health and mortality delta, for the universe of life and health insurance products …. A life-cycle model of insurance choice simplifies to replicating the optimal health and mortality delta through a … portfolio of insurance products. We estimate the model to explain the observed variation in health and mortality delta implied …

stochastic mortality risk and health shock risk numerically. These shocks are interpreted as critical illness and can negatively … affect the expected remaining lifetime, the health expenses, and the income. In order to hedge the health expense effect of a …

Health insurance status can change over the life cycle for exogenous reasons (e.g. Medicare for the elders, PPACA for … younger agents, termination of coverage at retirement in employer-provided plans). Durability of the health capital … allocation (consumption, leisure, health expenditures), status (health, wealth and survival rates), and welfare. We analyse the …

This paper estimates the long-term health effects of Vietnam-Era military service using Australia's National … conscription lotteries for identification. Our primary contribution is the quality and breadth of our health outcomes. We use … significant detrimental effects on a number of morbidity measures. Hearing and mental health appear to be particularly affected …

health would come from population-wide preventive measures. Access to public health care services varies substantially … public health services, more health professionals and public health care spending will be needed to ensure broad and adequate … health-care coverage. Priority should be given to high impact primary health care services. For more resources to translate …

We estimate the health costs of supply-side barriers to accessing medical care. The setting is Colombia, where citizens … have a constitutional right to health care, but insurance companies that manage delivery impose restrictions on access. We … use administrative data on judicial claims for health as a proxy for unmet demand. We validate this using the register …