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 …

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 …

Egyptian HIECS Survey, we develop a quantile regression model with an innovative variable selection approach via Adaptive Lasso … policy implications regarding residential energy efficiency and carbon emissions reduction in Egypt. …

study is on determining whether a lack of health insurance significantly impacted vaccination propensities. If it is indeed … the case that a lack of health insurance mattered, this would be informative for policymakers since they tried to address … vaccines were made available free of cost to the public in the United States, irrespective of their insurance status. A policy …

How do sudden, large wealth losses affect mental health? Most prior studies of the causal effects of material well …-being on health use identification strategies involving income increases; these studies as well as prior research on stock … market accumulations may not inform this question if the effect of wealth on health is asymmetric. We use exogenous variation …