We use the April 1993 Current Population Survey to examine the health insurance coverage decisions of the unemployed and to simulate the potential effects of the new Kassebaum-Kennedy legislation. After controlling for demographic characteristics, COBRA eligibility raises the probability of health insurance coverage by 0.095, while eligibility for spouse employer insurance increases the likelih...

Poor women with children in Ecuador were selected at random for a cash transfer equivalent to 7 percent of monthly expenditures. The transfer is greater than the increase in schooling costs at the end of primary school, but it is less than 20 percent of median child labor earnings in the labor market. Poor families with children in school at the time of the award use the extra income to postpon...

We can estimate how many of the 56,300 people who die annually of colorectal cancer whose survival could have been lengthened if their disease had been prevented or detected early: more than 50 percent. Risk of colorectal cancer may be reduced by regular physical activity and appropriate diet, and it can be effectively treated when it is detected early.1 Only lung cancer, which is expected to t...