. The sin good brings pleasure but has a detrimental effect on second period health and individuals tend to underestimate … this effect. In the second period, individuals can devote part of their saving to improve their health status and thus … period health care decision: either individuals acknowledge that they have made a mistake in the first period out of myopia …

, and depends on three factors: longevity genes, health investment and farsightedness. Provided earnings, farsightedness and …

costs, and diminishing health such as increasing in obesity (and associated physical health problems) as well behavioral … changing health, we find that increasing mental/emotional/physical health problems accounts for a significant portion of … that deteriorating mental/ emotional/physical health resulting from dietary changes and other factors has increased local …

health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in …

This paper investigates competition between health insurance companies under different financing regulations. We … consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health … contributions) and by fees (health premia). We find that contribution rate competition yields lower company profits and higher …

expenditure suggests that health care is a luxury good in these states. By contrast, the short-run elasticity obtained from the … regressions in first differences is in the range (0,1) for most US states, which suggests that health care is a necessity good … instead. The implications of these results for health policy are also discussed …

institutionalization (or €292 at the time of the study) exceed the amount respondents are willing to pay for home health care at old age in …