Health

News: The Mortality Effects of Reduced Medicaid Coverage Among International Migrants in Hawaii: 2012–2018

Congratulations to UHERO’s Timothy Halliday on his publication in the American Journal of Public Health: The Mortality Effects of Reduced Medicaid Coverage Among International Migrants in Hawaii: 2012–2018 Related research:Blog: The Impact of Medicaid on Health Care Utilization among Hawai‘i’s COFA MigrantsResearch Paper: The Impact of Public Health Insurance on Medical Utilization in a Vulnerable […]

COVID-19 recovery study

UHERO Research Fellow Ruben Juarez and collaborators from the John A. Burns School of Medicine are examining the recovery and progression of individuals with COVID-19 in order to design better strategies for the recovery of other infected individuals. The project is recruiting up to 100 participants who have tested positive over the last 60 days (anytime on […]

Labour market adjustment to third‐party competition: Evidence from Mexico

China’s exports reduce wages in importing countries, but few studies have looked at competition in third‐party markets. We examine labour market outcomes in Mexico’s apparel and textile sectors associated with US apparel and textile imports from China. Using data on US imports in conjunction with quarterly Mexican labour force surveys, we show that US imports from […]

UHERO’s Carl Bonham speaking to the Hawaii State House Select Committee on COVID-19

Herd Immunity or Containment through Test and Trace?

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), a viral disease caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2, has arrived and is spreading in Hawai’i.  In an attempt to “flatten the curve,” we have closed schools and many workplaces, while the entire state shelters at home. As a result, the economy is contracting fast.  While sufficiently flattening the curve is the […]

The Mortality Effects of Reduced Medicaid Coverage Among International Migrants in Hawaii: 2012–2018

We computed quarterly crude mortality rates for COFA migrants, Whites, and Japanese Americans from March 2012 to November 2018. We employed a difference-in-difference research design to estimate the impact of the Medicaid expiration on log mortality rates. We saw larger increases in COFA migrant mortality rates than White mortality rates after March 2015. By 2018, the increase […]

Carl Bonham appointed to Select House Committee on COVID-19

House Speaker Scott K. Saiki today announced the appointment of individuals to serve on the Select House Committee on COVID-19 Economic and Financial Preparedness adopted through House Resolution 54. UHERO Executive Director Carl Bonham along with a long list of other society, business, and legislative leaders have been named to the committee, which will be exploring how to […]

The intergenerational transmission of health in the United States: A latent variables analysis

Social scientists have long documented that many components of social and economic rank such as income and education have strong ties across generations. However, health levels, arguably a more critical component of welfare, has largely been ignored. We fill this void by providing the first estimates of the Intergenerational Health Association (IHA) that are explicitly based […]

The Impact of Medicaid on Health Care Utilization among Hawai‘i’s COFA Migrants

By Timothy Halliday and Randall Q Akee The Compacts of Free Association (COFA) are treaties between the United States (US) and three Micronesian nations: the Republic of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia. Collectively, citizens of these nations are often referred to as “Micronesians.” COFA guarantees Micronesians free […]