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 …

economic good or bad, and hence serves as a prime example of irrational behavior reducing individual health and happiness …. Contrary to previous research, we find no health impact when TV consumption increases. For life satisfaction, we even find … seems to be driven by negative self-selection. …

In Germany, employees are generally obliged to participate in the public health insurance system, where coverage is … instead if their income exceeds the compulsory insurance threshold. Here, premia are based on age and health, individuals may … private insurance coverage on the number of doctor visits, the number of nights spent in a hospital and self-assessed health …

Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing …. In this paper we estimate this average causal effect on health outcomes later in life, by applying instrumental variable …

Drawing on nationally representative UK data, we explore the association of parental health and disability with mental … used to capture parental health. Overall, we demonstrate a systematic association of parental health/disability with the … associations is observed between (and within) the mother's and father's health and disability measures. Much less evident is the …

-related health. After the fall of the Wall, East Germans permanently changed their diet by consuming novel western food products. A …-related health. …

find a decrease by 0.5 admissions (-6.5%) due to asthma per day, per 1 million population. The health prevention effects …

This paper provides field evidence on (a) how price framing affects consumers' decision to switch health insurance … plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be influenced by policymakers through simple … regulatory efforts. In 2009, in order to foster competition among health insurance companies, German federal regulation required …

effectiveness of four different health care cost containment measures within an integrated framework. The four measures investigated … were introduced in Germany in 1997 to reduce moral hazard and public health expenditures in the market for convalescent … health spa stays did not significantly reduce demand. -- health expenditures ; cost containment measures ; copayment …

To test for ethnic discrimination in access to outpatient health care services, we carry out an email … German names, does not affect whether they receive an appointment or wait time. In contrast, patients with private insurance … are 31 percent more likely to receive an appointment. Holding a private insurance also increases the likelihood of …