-term health insurance constitutes an alternative to community-rated short-term contracts with an individual mandate. In this paper …, we study the German long-term health insurance (GLTHI) from a life-cycle perspective. The GLTHI is one of the few real …-world long-term health insurance markets. We first present and discuss insurer regulation, premium setting, and the main market …

-collected historical data on the number of livestock at the local level with microdata on eating habits, health outcomes, and food … individuals have a higher probability of being obese, having poor self-perceived health, and developing cancer. The effects are … consumption, and adult health. …

People deny health risks, invest too little in disease prevention, and are highly sensitive to the price of … preventative health care, especially in developing countries. Moreover, private sector R and D spending on developing … which an agent's decision to engage in health risk denial balances the psychological benefits of reduced anxiety with the …

, selection on observables, and difference-in-differences. We also present an application to a policy intervention extending …