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

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 …

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 …

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 …