One of the major social policy issues facing the United States in the first decade of the twenty-
first century is the large number of Americans lacking health insurance. This article surveys …

Unless the concept is clearly understood,“universal coverage”(or universal health coverage,
UHC) can be used to justify practically any health financing reform or scheme. This paper …

The relationship between an individual's health and their labour market outcomes has long
been a subject of health economic research. This review aims to provide an up-to-date …

Creating the European monetary union between diverse and unequal nation states is
arguably one of the biggest social experiments in history. This book offers an explanation of …

The Economics of Health and Health Care is the market-leading health economics textbook,
providing comprehensive coverage of all the key topics, and balancing economic theory …

We study the effect of public health insurance on labor supply by exploiting a large public
health insurance disenrollment. In 2005, approximately 170,000 Tennessee residents …

In 2008, a group of uninsured low-income adults in Oregon was selected by lottery for the
chance to apply for Medicaid. Using this randomized design and 2009 administrative data …

Using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), we study the health
insurance and labor market implications of the recent Affordable Care Act (ACA) provision …

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March 2010 is
a landmark in US social legislation, and the Supreme Court's recent decision upholding the …

Interstate migration in the United States has decreased steadily since the 1980s, but little is
known about the causes of this decline. We show that declining migration is related to a …