Does marriage make you healthier?
Married couples are healthier than singles. New work by Nezih Guner, Yuliya Kulikova and Joan Llull seeks to determine the direction of causality by exploiting panel data. (This post first appeared on VoxEU.org)
Topic Archive: Health Economics
Is it a boy?
When migrants enter a new country, do they bring their family planning practices with them? Looking at birth certificate data, Libertad Gonzalez shows that some immigrant populations known to have son-biased birth ratios in their home country also have biased birth ratios in Spain.
Are sicker people more likely to buy health insurance?
Health economists Pau Olivella and Marcos Vera-Hernández test for asymmetric information in the UK’s private health insurance market.
