What has caused the rising gap in health insurance coverage by education in the U.S.? How does the employment-based health insurance market interact with the labor market? What are the effects of social insurance such as Medicaid? By developing and structurally estimating an equilibrium model, I find that the inter-action between labor market technological changes and the cost growth of medical services explains 60 to 70 percent of the gap. Using counterfactual experiments, I also evaluate the impact of further Medicaid eligibility expansion and employer mandates in-troduced in the Affordable Care Act on labor and health insuranc
This article introduces an empirical strategy to the compensating differentials literature that i) a...
Increases in the cost of providing health insurance must have some effect on labor markets, either i...
This paper provides a broad and general overview of the relationship between the U.S. health care sy...
I develop and structurally estimate an overlapping generations equilibrium model of employment and w...
The trend toward increased wage and income inequality that emerged in the 1980s—with "the rich getti...
Two of the important issues concerning the general well-beings of the working population-- wage ineq...
In the United States, private health insurance coverage is closely tied to employment most individua...
While discussion about health care encompasses a wide array of issues-inadequate access, the growing...
In the United States, changes in health policy are inextricably linked to labor market decisions bec...
We use variation in medical malpractice payments driven by the recent “medical malpractice crisis” t...
I study the aggregate implications of health risk and access to health care. At the individual level...
A distinctive feature of the health insurance market in the U.S. is the restriction of group insuran...
www.elon.edu/econ Employer-financed health insurance systems, like that used in the United States, d...
n the United States, two-thirds of the non-elderly population is covered by employer- provided healt...
An equilibrium model with firm and worker heterogeneity is constructed to analyze labor mar-ket and ...
This article introduces an empirical strategy to the compensating differentials literature that i) a...
Increases in the cost of providing health insurance must have some effect on labor markets, either i...
This paper provides a broad and general overview of the relationship between the U.S. health care sy...
I develop and structurally estimate an overlapping generations equilibrium model of employment and w...
The trend toward increased wage and income inequality that emerged in the 1980s—with "the rich getti...
Two of the important issues concerning the general well-beings of the working population-- wage ineq...
In the United States, private health insurance coverage is closely tied to employment most individua...
While discussion about health care encompasses a wide array of issues-inadequate access, the growing...
In the United States, changes in health policy are inextricably linked to labor market decisions bec...
We use variation in medical malpractice payments driven by the recent “medical malpractice crisis” t...
I study the aggregate implications of health risk and access to health care. At the individual level...
A distinctive feature of the health insurance market in the U.S. is the restriction of group insuran...
www.elon.edu/econ Employer-financed health insurance systems, like that used in the United States, d...
n the United States, two-thirds of the non-elderly population is covered by employer- provided healt...
An equilibrium model with firm and worker heterogeneity is constructed to analyze labor mar-ket and ...
This article introduces an empirical strategy to the compensating differentials literature that i) a...
Increases in the cost of providing health insurance must have some effect on labor markets, either i...
This paper provides a broad and general overview of the relationship between the U.S. health care sy...