Societies prohibit many transactions considered morally repugnant, although potentially efficiency-enhancing. We … conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors …

The contraction in health care consumption at the start of the pandemic provides insight into central economic … questions of waste and productivity in the U.S. health care system. Using linked mortality and Electronic Medical Records, we …-year mortality by 29.7 deaths per 10,000 among compliers, implying that a 10% increase in health care appointments reduces mortality …

We investigate whether people enrolled into voluntary health insurance (VHI) substitute public consumption with private … provision of private goods ; health insurance ; bivariate count data model ; endogenous multinomial treatment ; simultaneous … the case of Italy, where a mixed insurance system is in place. To this purpose, we specify a joint model for public and …

To equalize differences in health plan premiums due to differences in risk pools, the German legislature introduced a …, consumers gained the freedom to choose among hundreds of existing health plans, across employers and state-borders. This paper … impact on market price dispersion. Moreover, it (b) characterizes health plan switchers and investigates their annual and …

Bias among health care providers can lead to poor-quality care and poor health outcomes, and it can exacerbate …

Egyptian HIECS Survey, we develop a quantile regression model with an innovative variable selection approach via Adaptive Lasso … policy implications regarding residential energy efficiency and carbon emissions reduction in Egypt. …

and from employment insurance programs. We rely on panel data estimators and a difference-in-differences specification … extent, by higher income from employment insurance. However, when considering a sub-sample of intensive users, only around 10 …