One of the mechanisms that is implemented in the cost containment wave in the health-care sectors in western countries … reimbursement scheme when decisions on prices and qualities are taken simultaneously (that we relate to primary health-care sectors … solution when decisions are sequential (specialized health-care sector). We also derive some normative conclusions on the way …

We estimate the impact of health insurance coverage beyond National Health Insurance on the demand for several health … on the most common health insurance plan in Portugal, ADSE, which is given to all civil servants and their dependants. We … argue this insurance is exogenous i.e. not correlated with beneficiaries’ health status. This identifying assumption allows …

characterization of patient selection. …

This paper investigates whether cannabis use affects physical and mental health. To do so, information on prime aged … individuals living in Amsterdam in 1994 is used. Dutch data offer a clear advantage in estimating the health impacts of cannabis … physical and psychological effects of engaging in a criminal activity. Accounting for selection into cannabis use and shared …

This paper investigates whether cannabis use leads to worse mental health. To do so, we account for common unobserved … factors affecting mental health and cannabis consumption by modeling mental health jointly with the dynamics of cannabis use …. Our main finding is that using cannabis increases the likelihood of mental health problems, with current use having a …