health-care expenditure, which shows that the conventional DD ignoring qualiÂ…fication changes is misleading by mixing the …

multivariate probit model to control for the simultaneous self-selection process of practices into the payment scheme and larger …

We investigate whether people enrolled into voluntary health insurance (VHI) substitute public consumption with private … the case of Italy, where a mixed insurance system is in place. To this purpose, we specify a joint model for public and … private specialist visits counts, and allow for different degrees of endogenous supplementary insurance coverage, looking at …

This paper empirically assesses the relative role of health plan prices, service quality and optional benefits in the … decision to choose a health plan. We link representative German SOEP panel data from 2007 to 2010 to (i) health plan service … quality indicators, (ii) measures of voluntary benefit provision on top of federally mandated benefits, and (iii) health plan …

When health insurance reforms involve non-linear price schedules tied to payment periods (for example, a quarter or a … with the payment period. We illustrate these issues using as an example a health care reform in Germany which imposed a … approach using a separate data set of insurance claims in which the reporting period effects are absent by construction. …

the nearest hospital for orthopaedics and neurosurgery. During our sample period, health insurers did not steer patients …

There is a well-established debate between Heckman sample selection and two-part models in health econometrics … models to health care expenditure. This paper revisits the debate in the context of female smoking and drinking, and …