This dissertation focuses on topics in health economics and public finance. I deal with questions that have importance for health policy, and that are simultane

This dissertation examines several questions in public finance, including health care, workers' compensation program, and tax rebates. The first chapter, entitl

In the third essay, I examine the impacts of the public health insurance eligibility during childhood on longer-term financial outcomes. Exploiting the variatio

In the third essay, we use the variation in political incentives of state governors provided by term limits to show that the variation in the level of OAA benef