, occupational choice, wages, and health. Using panel data from Vietnam and an instrumental variables strategy, we evaluate the … reduced schooling, particularly for girls. We find no significant effects of child labour on several indicators of health …

profession. When the good produced (e.g. health care) is imperfectly observable by the payer (e.g. health insurance), asymmetries …

The impacts of choice in public services are controversial. We exploit a reform in the English National Health Service …

Standard insurance models predict that people with high (health) risks have high insurance coverage. It is empirically … documented that people with high income have lower health risks and are better insured. We show that income differences between … traditionally viewed as an intervention which increases efficiency and raises the utility of low health agents, we show that with a …

We analyze exclusive contracts between health care providers and insurers in a model where some consumers choose to …

In countries like the US and the Netherlands health insurance is provided by private firms. These private firms can … understood. Using a Dutch data set of about 700 group health insurance contracts over the period 2007-2008, we estimate a model …

This paper provides an analysis of the health insurance and health care consumption. A structural microeconomic model … of joint demand for health insurance and health care is developed and estimated using full maximum likelihood method … 100% to 10% increases the marginal demand for health care by about 90% and from 100% to 0% by about 150%. The correlation …

We study optimal risk adjustment in imperfectly competitive health insurance markets when high-risk consumers are less …

Consumers, when buying health insurance, do not know the exact value of each treatment that they buy coverage for. This … government can stimulate R&D in breakthrough treatments by excluding treatments with low value added from health insurance … coverage. If the country is rich enough such a government intervention in a private health insurance market raises welfare. …

-up is low and the businesses often close. We analyze a randomized trial that bundled microfinance loans with a cheap health …