Economic Research Initiative on the Uninsured Working Paper Series HOUSEHOLD SEARCH AND HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE Matthew Dey BLS-DOL Dey.Matthew@bls.gov Christopher Flinn Department of Economics New York University christopher.flinn@nyu.edu ERIU Working Paper 50 www.umich.edu/~eriu/pdf/wp50.pdf Economic Research Initiative on the Uninsured University of Michigan 555 South Forest Street, 3 rd Floor Ann Arbor, MI 49104-2531 Not to be distributed or copied without permission of the author. November 2005 This research is supported in part by grants from the Economic Research Initiative on the Uninsured (ERIU) at the University of Michigan and the C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics at New York University. James Mabli and Dan Silverman provided extremely helpful comments, as have participants in the Institute for Research on Poverty Summer Workshop (Madison, 2005), the ERIU Summer Conference (Ann Arbor, 2005), and a seminar held at the University of Torino. The views expressed here are ours and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Department of Labor or the Bureau of Labor Statistics. We are responsible for all errors, omissions, and interpretations.