The effect of health insurance coverage on the reported health of young adults

Eric Cardella and Briggs Depew

Economics Letters, 2014, vol. 124, issue 3, 406-410

Abstract: We exploit a sharp change in the likelihood that an individual is covered by health insurance when he/she turns 19 years of age to study how health insurance affects reported health status. We find that an individual is 6 percentage points less likely to have health insurance when he/she turns 19. Using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design, we find that having health coverage significantly increases the likelihood of reporting excellent health among young adults.

Keywords: Reported health; Health insurance; Young adults (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 I13 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2014.06.036

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