This paper provides field evidence on (a) how price framing affects consumers’ decision to switch health insurance … plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be influenced by policymakers through simple … regulatory efforts. In 2009, in order to foster competition among health insurance companies, German federal regulation required …

We investigate whether people enrolled into voluntary health insurance (VHI) substitute public consumption with private … income (doubly insured) individuals to low income (not doubly insured) ones operated by the Italian National Health Service …

health expenditures. Seguro Popular (SP) covers a variety of preventive and curative procedures, as well as medicines, and … catastrophic health expenditures, as well as out-of-pocket health expenditures, from three different sources: National Household … Survey of Income and Expenditures (ENIGH 2006); National Health and Nutrition Survey (ENSANUT 2006); and SP Impact Evaluation …

to cover Medicare gaps. This paper studies how Medigap affects the utilization of health care services. The decision to … preferences. Empirical appraisals to this problem typically rely on the recursive bivariate probit. We exploit the Health and … Retirement Study data and some recent advances on latent class analysis to jointly model the insurance and health care decisions …

This paper employs an econometric model to parse dierences in health care utilization attributable to private health … such as insurance preference or attitude toward health risks. The model has two components, one component to model …. Recognizing the endogeneity of health insurance, the model allows for correlated unobserved heterogeneity by assuming a latent …

In this paper I estimate the impact of Medicaid on children's health care utilization and their subsequent health … its Child Development Study (CDS) supplement, I nd that the effects of Medicaid on measures of children's health are … insurance with access to better quality of health care, generating a negative eect on children's health outcomes. …

Deductibles in health insurance generate nonlinear budget sets and dynamic incentives. This paper uses detailed … individual claims data from a large Swiss insurance company to estimate the response in health care demand to the discrete price … type framework based on daily data to estimate the change in health care demand right before and right after the turn of …

We examine the vertical transmission of overweight drawing upon a sample of English children, both adopted and non …

British Household Panel Survey. Results confirm that health shocks are a determinant of retirement age and are quantitatively … health limitations and a measure of latent health status obtained from a generalized ordered probit model. Further, our … results provide evidence that, for women, the health status of their partner impacts on their retirement decisions; and effect …

This paper investigates the causal relationship between ill-health and retirement among older working individuals. We …- 2005) of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. Our results show that health plays an … important role in individual retirement decisions and that negative shocks to health greatly increase the hazard of retirement …