abstract: 'Better health improves labor market outcomes, and better labor market

  outcomes discourage individuals from engaging in criminal behavior.

  Therefore, health insurance policies would affect labor market outcomes

  and criminal behavior. To explain the mechanism and the impact, we build

  an equilibrium search model of health, crime, and the labor market. We

  then use the model to conduct policy experiments and quantify their

  impacts on the economy. The calibrated model shows that the

  Medicare-for-all and the Employer Mandate under the Affordable Care Act

  would increase the aggregate output by more than 10\% . However, while

  Medicare-for-all reduces the crime rate and inequality, the Employer

  Mandate increases both. Furthermore, policy effects vary by individual''s

  skill and health status. (c) 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.'
affiliation: 'Otsu, Y (Corresponding Author), Univ Tokyo, Ctr Spatial Informat Sci,
  5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 2778568, Japan.

  Otsu, Yuki, Univ Tokyo, Ctr Spatial Informat Sci, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba
  2778568, Japan.

  Yuen, C. Y. Kelvin, Hong Kong Univ Sci \& Technol, Urban Governance \& Design Thrust,
  Guangzhou, Peoples R China.

  Yuen, C. Y. Kelvin, Hong Kong Univ Sci \& Technol, Dept Econ, Hong Kong, Peoples
  R China.'
article-number: '104529'
author: Otsu, Yuki and Yuen, C. Y. Kelvin
author-email: 'y.otsu@csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  kelvinyuen@ust.hk'
author_list:
- family: Otsu
  given: Yuki
- family: Yuen
  given: C. Y. Kelvin
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.jedc.2022.104529
eissn: 1879-1743
files: []
issn: 0165-1889
journal: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC DYNAMICS \& CONTROL
keywords: Health; Crime; Labor search; Health insurance; Crime policy
keywords-plus: 'PANEL-DATA; EQUILIBRIUM UNEMPLOYMENT; CYCLICAL BEHAVIOR; SEARCH MODEL;

  CARE; INEQUALITY; EMPLOYMENT; SHOCKS; IMPACT; WAGES'
language: English
month: NOV
number-of-cited-references: '66'
orcid-numbers: Otsu, Yuki/0000-0001-6429-8561
papis_id: 5d74fb7c673f88e8421939304d92e7a2
ref: Otsu2022healthcrime
researcherid-numbers: 'Otsu, Yuki/HSE-5707-2023

  '
times-cited: '0'
title: 'Health, crime, and the labor market: Theory and policy analysis'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000875649000009
usage-count-last-180-days: '3'
usage-count-since-2013: '7'
volume: '144'
web-of-science-categories: Economics
year: '2022'