title: Health insurance coverage and self-reported health: new estimates from the NLSY97.
abstract: This paper provides new estimates of the relationship between health insurance coverage and health status of young adults using the confidential version of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 Cohort (NLSY97). Using a regression discontinuity design, I find that approximately 6 % of young adults lose their health insurance coverage once they turn 19. However, in contrast to the findings from the recent literature, the effect of this discrete change in health insurance coverage on self-reported health status of young adults is quite limited and often statistically insignificant.
authors.affiliation: Department of Economics, University at Albany, SUNY, 1400 Washington Ave., Albany, NY, 12222, USA. byoruk@albany.edu.|CESifo, Munich, Germany. byoruk@albany.edu.
authors.forename: Barış K
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Yörük
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001699:Biometry; D002648:Child; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D019458:Insurance Coverage; D008297:Male; D057566:Self Report; D014481:United States
keywords: Health insurance coverage; Self-reported health