| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w8316 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 8316 |
| The Self-Employed are Less Likely to Have Health Insurance Than Wage Earners. So What? | |
| Craig William Perry; Harvey S. Rosen | |
| 发表日期 | 2001-06-01 |
| 出版年 | 2001 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | There is considerable public policy concern over the relatively low rates of health insurance coverage among the self-employed in the United States. Presumably, the reason for the concern is that their low rates of insurance lead to worse health outcomes. We use data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey conducted in 1996 to analyze how the self-employed and wage-earners differ with respect to insurance coverage and health status. Using a variety of ways to measure health status, we find that the relative lack of health insurance among the self-employed does not affect their health. For virtually every subjective and objective measure of health status, the self-employed and wage earners are statistically indistinguishable from each other. Further, we present some evidence that this phenomenon is not due to the fact that individuals who select into self-employment are healthier than wage-earners, ceteris paribus. Thus, the public policy concern with the relative lack of health insurance among the self-employed may be somewhat misplaced. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w8316 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/565914 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Craig William Perry,Harvey S. Rosen. The Self-Employed are Less Likely to Have Health Insurance Than Wage Earners. So What?. 2001. |
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| w8316.pdf（203KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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