The “tax exclusion” for employer‐​ sponsored health insurance shields workers from paying
income or payroll taxes on such benefits. The exclusion is an accident of history that …

This paper uses panel data techniques to investigate the impact of state mandates to cover
telehealth services on private insurance premiums and enrollment, health-care utilization …

Is there an obesity externality? In the late 1990s and early 2000s, many state governments
began requiring health insurance plans to cover treatments for diabetes. Using difference-in …

Abstract Theory suggests that the medical costs of obesity should be passed on to obese
workers, in the form of lower wages, whenever health coverage is a part of employee …

We examine the effect of the state-level full parity mental illness law implementation on
mental illness among college-aged individuals and human capital accumulation in college …

Empirical evidence has shown in many contexts that taxes levied against producers are
passed through to consumers in the form of higher prices. This dissertation asks whether a" …

Because employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI) is experience rated, employers have
an incentive to try to offset its cost by paying lower wages to employees who have greater …

In the United States, female workers tend to have higher medical expenditures than male
workers. Due to experience rated premiums, the cost of providing employer‐sponsored …

A population's health is dependent on the availability of skilled health professionals. We
know little about retirement decision-making among publicly employed Canadian registered …

By 2010, the average US state had passed 37 health insurance benefit mandates (laws
requiring health insurance plans to cover certain additional services). Previous work has …