Robert Kaestner

TL;DR: In this article, a demonstration program mounted by a major bank to understand whether access to information and communications technologies, combined with financial literacy training and training on how to use the Internet, can help low and moderate-income individuals in inner-city neighborhoods be more effective financial actors.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided that physicians practice defensive medicine in obstetrics but that the impact of increased cesarean sections that results from malpractice fears on total obstetric care costs is small and that physicians' defensive response varies with the socioeconomic status of the mother.

TL;DR: Estimates of the association between unwanted pregnancy and maternal behaviors were greatly reduced after controls for unmeasured family background were included in the model, and results indicate that unwanted pregnancy is associated with prenatal and postpartum maternal behaviors that adversely affect infant and child health, but that unwantedregnancy has little association with birth weight and child cognitive outcomes.

TL;DR: The Medicaid expansions were associated with large increases in Medicaid coverage, for example, 50 percent among childless adults, and corresponding decreases in the proportion uninsured, and there was relatively little change in private insurance coverage, although the expansions tended to decrease such coverage slightly.

TL;DR: Evidence that obtaining health insurance reduces prevention and increases unhealthy behaviors among elderly men and physician counseling is successful in changing health behaviors is found.