in reducing predicted losses for subgroups of health care users. Nevertheless, incentives for risk selection against some …When public long-term care (LTC) insurance is provided by insurers, they typically lack incentives for purchasing cost …-effective LTC. Providing insurers with appropriate incentives for efficiency without jeopardizing access for high-risk individuals …

reform that permitted Dutch health insurers and hospitals to freely negotiate prices for elective procedures. Unlike previous … selection bias in our setting to identify the effect on quality of non-acute hip replacements. Using administrative data on all …

The Netherlands is among the top spenders on health in the OECD. We document the life-cycle profile, concentration and …. Spending on health care is strongly concentrated: the one per cent of individuals with the highest levels of expenditure …-term care, which amounts to one third of all expenditure on health care, is even more concentrated: the top one per cent …

The Netherlands is among the top spenders on health in the OECD. We document the life-cycle profile, concentration and …. Spending on health care is strongly concentrated: the one per cent of individuals with the highest levels of expenditure …-term care, which amounts to one third of all expenditure on health care, is even more concentrated: the top one per cent …

Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health … explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education and cognitive functioning. Analysis of eight waves of the US Health …

coverage for health care but earnings losses are uninsured. Even with comprehensive health care entitlement, severe illness … back on saving, and by borrowing. In the short term, informal insurance fills gaps left uncovered by formal insurance but …

Anchoring vignettes are increasingly used to identify and correct heterogeneity in the reporting of health, work … valid under a less stringent assumption. We apply these tests to cognitive functioning and mobility related health problems … using data from the English Longitudinal Survey of Ageing. Response consistency is rejected for both health domains …

-related inequality of self-assessed health evolve over the life cycle and differ across generations in 11 EU countries. There is a … moderate and steady decline in mean health until the age of 70 or so and a steep acceleration in the rate of health … economic and social development, the average health of younger generations is significantly better than that of older …