likely to choose private hospitals; and that dominant drivers of sorting between public and private providers are health … suggest differences in health explain 18% of the difference in the use of private providers between rich and poor patients … market frictions, limited variation in payments made to hospitals according to patient health means that sorting is estimated …

In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set … of behaviours which are thought to influence health and are generally considered to invoke a substantial degree of free … choice. The main underlying assumption is that individuals are co-producers of their own health. We first present a …

Health spending per capita in England has more than doubled since 1997, yet relatively little is known about how that … spending is distributed across the population. This paper uses administrative National Health Service (NHS) hospital records to …

and car insurance using data from the UK. The main empirical results are: - higher labor income risk induces a higher … demand for car insurance. - the effects of increases in labor income risk after 1979 seem to be more than offset by a more …

to a selection problem if outcomes are compared across current smokers and non-smokers. We consider different ways of …

elective surgery responds following the entry of private providers into the market for publicly funded health care in England …

more likely to have private health insurance. Larger winners are also more likely to drop coverage earlier, possibly after …We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in … the United Kingdom. This strategy allows us to estimate lottery income elasticities for a range of health care services …