This paper exploits a major mid-1990s expansion in the US Department of Veterans Affairs
health care system to provide evidence on the labor market effects of expanding health …

Measuring the total impact of health insurance receipt on household labor supply is
important in an era of increased access to publicly provided and subsidized insurance …

This paper studies the role of health insurance in the retirement decisions of older workers.
As policymakers consider mechanisms for how to increase access to affordable health …

Concern over the lack of portability associated with employer-provided health insurance has
precipitated a recent flurry of research activity on the effects of health insurance on labor …

FOR DECADES health insurance in the United States has been provided to most nonelderly
Americans through their own or a family member's employment. This system of employment …

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 …

Most government employees have access to retiree health coverage, which provides them
with group health coverage even if they retire before Medicare eligibility. We study the …

Concerns about age-related dispari-ties in workers' access to private health insurance and
potential discontinuities in coverage as workers age have focused public policy interest on …

The onset of Medicare eligibility at age 65 leads to sharp changes in the health insurance
coverage of the US population. These changes lead to increases in the use of medical …

In the United States, two-thirds of the nonelderly population is covered by employerprovided
health insurance (EHI). 1 According to a Kaiser Family Foundation national survey (2003) …