The impacts of choice in public services are controversial. We exploit a reform in the English National Health Service …

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 …

Extending choice in health care is currently popular amongst English, and other, politicians. Those promoting choice … choice acts as a major driver for efficiency. Giving service users the ability to choose applies competitive pressure to … health care providers and, analogously with private markets, they will raise their game to attract business. The paper …

The effect of competition on the quality of health care remains a contested issue. Most empirical estimates rely on …

characterization of patient selection. …

health care markets. We show that competition generally favours the majority group as higher quality for the majority is an …

half the short term general hospitals were involved in a merger, but that politics means that selection for a merger may be …

important part of the health care market using data on the choices made by 3.4 million English patients from amongst nearly 1000 …