On the basis of French individual data, this paper compares the effects of demographic change, changes in morbidity and changes in practices on the growth in health expenditures that occurred between 1992 and 2000. Micro simulations show that the rise in expenditures due to ageing is relatively...

The aim of this paper is to examine whether the estimation of labor demand can be affected by individual behavior heterogeneity. We shall consider an error-components model with variable-coefficients, where the coefficients are random and vary accross firms according to the values of...

The purpose of this paper is to study hospital costs in the event of introduction of a Prospective Payment System in France. We use a nested three dimensional database (stays-hospitals-years) to identify hospital unobservable heterogeneity and a transitory moral hazard component of cost...

We study the diffusion of innovative procedures for heart attack treatment, focusing on its impact on the distributions of the cost and length of hospital stays. We perform microsimulations on a sample of 5,681 stays in French public hospitals to evaluate the impacts of adoption of new...