in the Netherlands, and contains information on teenage time use, income, expenditures, and subjective measures of well … social interactions. For some types of behavior (e.g. truancy, smoking, pocket money, alcohol expenditures) endogenous social …

insecurity measures with objective measures of food expenditures and objective and subjective measures of food needs. The study … with food expenditures and negatively associated with needs. The study goes on to examine reports of food hardships at low … very levels of food expenditures, where we conjecture that most people should experience food problems. When expenditures …

Scheme in rural China by estimating a static game with incomplete information. Using a rich dataset from the China Health and …

Employer-provided health insurance may restrict job mobility, resulting in "job lock." Previous research on job lock …

In 2007, China launched a subsidized voluntary public health insurance program, the Urban Resident Basic Medical …. We estimate the impact of this program on health care utilization and expenditure using 2006 and 2009 waves of the China … Health and Nutrition Survey. We find that this program has significantly increased the utilization of formal medical services …

We evaluate the effect of the size of deductibles in the basic health insurance in Switzerland on the probability of a …

health insurance and pensions. Benefit bundling may increase informality and decrease welfare. Indeed, if some of the … key reform is the unification of the payment systems for health and pension, which made it more difficult to contribute …

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 …

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 …