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. …

Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on … individual labor market outcomes. The data covers the period from 1994 to 2008. It is longitudinal and rich in life-style, health …

We use data on insurance deductible choices to estimate a structural model of risky choice that incorporates "standard …

insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in …

test of organizational efficiency based on the Beardwood-Halton-Hammersley (1959) theorem of combinatorial optimization. …

To limit the dramatic growth of U.S. health care expenditures, some states have mandated that medical providers …