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We investigate the presence of moral hazard and advantageous or adverse selection in a market for supplementary health … insurance. For this we specify and estimate dynamic models for health insurance decisions and health care utilization. Estimates … for advantageous selection, largely driven by heterogeneity in education, income and health preferences. Finally, we show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325874
This paper looks into the search behavior of consumers in the market for health insurance contracts. We consider the … recent health insurance reform in The Netherlands, where a private-public mix of insurance provision was replaced by a system … insurance system. This model provides us with a number of hypotheses, which we test using data from the Dutch Health Care …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326059
We investigate the presence of moral hazard and advantageous or adverse selection in a market for supplementary health … insurance. For this we specify and estimate dynamic models for health insurance decisions and health care utilization. Estimates … for advantageous selection, largely driven by heterogeneity in education, income and health preferences. Finally, we show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012714059
This paper looks into the search behavior of consumers in the market for health insurance contracts. We consider the … recent health insurance reform in The Netherlands, where a private-public mix of insurance provision was replaced by a system … insurance system. This model provides us with a number of hypotheses, which we test using data from the Dutch Health Care …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014193214
To increase their transition from welfare to work, benefit recipients in the municipality of Rotterdam were exposed to various financial incentives, including both carrots to sticks. Once their benefit spell exceeded one year, welfare recipients were entitled to a reemployment bonus if they...
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Randomized experiments provide policy relevant treatment effects if there areno spillovers between participants and nonparticipants. We show that thisassumption is violated for a Danish activation program for unemployed workers.Using a difference-in-difference model we show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326233
This paper studies mandatory job-search periods for welfare applicants. During this period the benefits application is put on hold and the applicant is obliged to make job applications. We combine a randomized experiment with detailed administrative data to investigate the effects of imposing a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451522
This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we … leaving age by one year had little effect on the health of their offspring. Schooling did however improve economic … child health are at most modest. …
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