Societies prohibit many transactions considered morally repugnant, although potentially efficiency-enhancing. We … conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors …

The purpose of this paper is to compare the cost efficiency of private and public property insurance providers in … measurement errors and apply the model to a data set on 19 firms in housing insurance markets in Switzerland. We show that the … public insurance providers are about 20 per cent more cost efficient than their private counterparts. …

We conduct a stated-choice experiment where respondents are asked to rate various insurance products aimed to protect … equilibrium for long-term care insurance using the framework developped by Einav et al. (2010). We investigate in turn causes for … the low observed take-up of long-term care insurance in Canada despite substantial residual out-of-pocket financial risk …

informal caregiving are borne by the caregiver and may consist of worse health outcomes and, if the caregiver has not retired …, worse labor market outcomes. We estimate the impact of providing informal care to one’s partner on the caregiver's health … using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). We exploit the panel structure of the data …

large and complex market. Our study generates several interesting results related to the adoption and diffusion of Health … findings have the potential to provide a better understanding of the longer-run effectiveness and efficiency in the provision … ; primary care ; health information technology ; electronic medical records ; technology ; adoption ; diffusion ; urban and …

Background and objective: An economic analysis of telemedicine support to improve glycemic control in patients with … type 2 diabetes mellitus, illustrating the use of an analytic framework that efficiently combines telemedicine program … patients with diabetes in Salford, UK. Economic analysis of the trial describes the cost of delivering telemedicine support and …

', `telemedicine', `biotelemetry', `telehealth', and `telehomecare'. Fourteen studies involving telemonitoring experiments were found … would substantiate its effects on the utilization of health services (e.g. office and emergency room visits …

Secretary of Health and Human Services. Demonstration projects examine health delivery factors that encourage the delivery of …