discovery, learning effects in the health care sector, and the severity of output losses due to a lockdown. In our baseline …

Although measures of sensitivity to inequality are important in judging the welfare effects of health-care programmes …, it is far from straightforward how to elicit them and apply them in health-care decision making. This paper provides an … overview of the literature on the measurement of inequality aversion, examines some of the features specific of the health …

cross-country variation in health infrastructures (e.g., share of out of pocket spending on health per capita and the number …

Uniform health care delivered by a mainstream public insurer - such as the National Health Service (NHS), seldom … satisfies heterogeneous demands for care, and some unsatisfied share of the population either use private health care, or … purchase private insurance (PHI). One potential mechanism to partially satisfy heterogeneous preferences for health care, and …

We compare health system responses to the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and Spain. In both countries … health system responses, we show evidence of a significant gap in the number of infected cases, alongside regular and …

constituents on the use of health care, and specifically maternal and preventive care services. We examine the development of … institutions of self-governance in India, and specifically the 2005 reform - the National Rural Health Mission that introduced … village health and sanitation committees - to study the effects of the strengthening of the political agency on collective …