central problems in public finance, including the optimal structure of health insurance and optimal life cycle savings. In …If the marginal utility of consumption depends on health status, this will affect the economic analysis of a number of … this paper, we describe the promises and challenges of various approaches to estimating the effect of health on the …

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 …

men) are essentially the result of selection. After controlling for unobserved heterogeneity, only small pay differences …

gender wage gap varies considerably across countries and selection corrections affect the offered gap, sometimes …

Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general …

We analyze the efficiency and productivity growth of a representative sample of Portuguese hospitals from 1997 to 2004 … productivity indicator that is decomposed into the usual constituents of productivity growth: technological change and efficiency …