Does medical insurance affect health care demand and in the end contribute to improvements in the health status …? Evidence for China for the year 2004, by means of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), shows that health insurance … does not affect health care demand in a significant manner. Counterfactuals suggest that full insurance coverage of the …

requires, among other things, an adequate system of risk adjustment. While risk adjustment is now widely adopted in health … and demographic information are found to explain much of the variation, while prior health care expenditures are important … in reducing predicted losses for subgroups of health care users. Nevertheless, incentives for risk selection against some …

This discussion paper resulted in an article in <I>Journal of Health Economics</I> (2013). Volume 32, issue 6, pages … fees. Health Equity Funds (HEFs) aim to make exemptions effective by giving NGOs responsibility for assessing eligibility … effect is larger for households that are poorer, mainly use public health care and live closer to a district hospital. HEFs …

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 reductio …

We exploit an age discontinuity in a Dutch disability insurance (DI) reform to identify the health impact of stricter … negative health effect on females is restricted to women with low pre-disability earnings. We hypothesize that the gender … difference in the effect is due to the reform tightening eligibility particularly with respect to mental health conditions, which …

studies how the system of health care provision affects the allocation of patients to physicians when physicians differ in … altruism. We show that allowing for private provision of health care, parallel to (free) treatment in a National Health Service …

This discussion paper resulted in an article in <I>Health Economics</I> (2012). Volume 21, issue 4, pages 367-385.<P …> Rapid urbanization could have positive and negative health effects, such that the net impact on population health is not … individual level longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey to estimate the net health impact of China …