through induced innovation. Our overall reading of the evidence is that rising income is unlikely to be a major driver of the …

The determinants of the dramatically rising expenditures on health care in general, and on hospital care in particular … significant impact of social insurance on the demand for hospital trips, the empirical results presented here cast doubts on the …

technological shift is driven by demand uncertainty, increased patients' benefit, financial variables, and the reimbursement system … considered, adoption occurs either when patients' benefits are large enough or when the differential reimbursement across …

is the definition, by the third-party payer, of a set of preferred providers. The insured patients have different access …

hospitals, the responsiveness of patients to greater choice, the provision of information and the use of fixed prices. The paper …

in Peru and Uganda. I find that rich patients are more likely than other patients to bribe in public health care ….37 in Uganda. Bribes in the Ugandan public sector appear to be fees-for-service extorted from the richer patients amongst … paid by patients who do not pay official fees. I do not find evidence that the public health care sector in either Peru or …

whether patients react to decentralized information on quality differences between providers and whether payer's and patients …

individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … innovation. …