El presente documento analiza la evolución del consumo de drogas en Colombia durante los últimos años. El análisis, realizado con base en las encuestas de la Dirección Nacional de Estupefacientes, muestra que el consumo de drogas creció de manera sustancial entre 1996 y 2008. El...

We determine the optimal health policy mix when the average utility of patients in-creases with the supply of drugs available in a therapeutic class. Health risk coverage rely on two instruments, copayment and reference pricing, that affect the supported risk composed by health expenses and...

We develop a model where a genetic test reveals whether an individual has a low or high probability of developing a disease. A costly prevention effort allows high-risk agents to decrease this probability. Agents are not obliged to take the test, but must disclose its results to insurers, and...

We develop a theoretical analysis of two widely used regulations of genetic tests, disclosure duty and consent law, and we run several experiments in order to shed light on both the take-up rate of genetic testing and on the comparison of policy-holders’ welfare under the two regulations....

This paper studies the design of health insurance with ex post moral hazard, when there is imperfect competition in the market for the medical product. Various scenarios, such as monopoly pricing, price negotiation or horizontal differentiation are considered. The insurance contract specifies...

This paper separately evaluates how devolution and accountability, two distinct aspects of the decentralization reforms implemented in Indonesia in the year 2001, influenced the public provision of water services. Using household level data it is found that thedevolution of responsibility does...

Este trabajo cuantifica el retorno de la inversión en cuidado preventivo en términos de la reducción del número de hospitalizaciones o urgencia para niños entre 0 y 5 años en laciudad de Bogotá. Para ello se utilizó un panel de individuos construidos a partir de los Registros de visitas...

We introduce new risk groups to a standard capitation formula and evaluate risk selection incentives of insurers. The study uses a unique data set of almost 24 million affiliates to Government’s mandatory health insurance system. This data set is very rich in the sense of reporting all claims...

Resumen Este trabajo revisa la literatura que trata del funcionamiento de la competencia en el sector de la salud cuando este está organizado alrededor de una managed care competition. Se abordan en una primera parte los problemas de asimetría de información que caracterizan los mercados de...

We examine whether the Colombian government, when instituting and expanding social programs in the early nineties, inadvertently created incentives for people to become informal. We use data from repeated cross-sections of the Colombian Household Survey for periods before and after...