This paper studies the interaction between public and private health care provision in a National Health Service (NHS …), with free public care and costly private care. The health authority decides whether or not to allow private provision and … "crowds out" public provision, and results in lower overall health care provision. While the health authority can mitigate …

We estimate the impact on health care utilization and out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures of a major reform in Thailand … that extended health insurance to one-quarter of the population to achieve universal coverage while keeping health spending … health care, while spending at the very top of the OOP distribution was reduced by one-half representing substantial …

endanger public safety or health. We use time-series and cross-sectional variation in powerful registry data to quantify the …

situation as well as individual health and other risk factors. However, a fundamental opposition to reforms of the welfare state …

Using data from the Health Survey for England and the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing, we estimate the causal … effect of schooling on health. Identification comes from two nation wide increases in British compulsory school leaving age … exogenous variation in schooling by using biomarkers as measures of health outcomes in addition to self-reported measures. We …

decreases, and the two have different implications for human health. An alternative measure for net current biological …