The Roots of Health Inequality and The Value of Intra-Family Expertise

We gratefully acknowledge support from the National Institute on Aging (R21AG052833), University of Chicago Becker Friedman Institute, Stanford Spectrum Pilot Grants for Population Health Sciences (NIH 5UL1TR001085), Stanford Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. We are grateful to Adam Altmejd, Marika Cabral, Alice Chen, Raj Chetty, Janet Currie, Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, Matt Gentzkow, Mark Hlatky, Jonathan Kolstad, Camille Landais, Adriana Lleras-Muney, Douglas Owens, Maxim Pinkovskiy, Luigi Pistaferri, Maya Rossin-Slater, Jesse Shapiro, Heidi Williams, and seminar participants at Stanford’s Opportunity Lab, MIT, University of California at Berkeley, Columbia University, Stanford University, University of California San Diego, Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, Ben-Gurion University, University of Munich, University of Regensburg, University of San Francisco, University of Southern California, University of Warwick, London School of Economics joint with IFS, Berlin Applied Micro Seminar, University of British Columbia, University of Chicago Booth, the NBER Summer Institute, AshEcon 2019, WEAI 2019, and NBER Health Care. We are especially grateful to Katja Hofmann and Felipe Kup for excellent research sssistance. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• March 1, 2019