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 …

A famous idea to maintain affordable health expenditures is to cut back statutory health insurance (SHI) to a basic … insurance and to introduce supplementary private health insurance (PHI), permitted to cover the remaining benefits and to apply … managed care mechanisms. The measure is supposed to lower public health expenditures and to enhance cost efficiency and …

annuity markets and tax deductibility of private health expenditures. …

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 …

How do health crises affect election results? We combine a panel of election results from 1893-1933 with spatial … lasting shift towards left-wing parties. We argue that pandemic intensity increased the salience of public health policy …, prompting voters to reward parties signaling competence in health issues. Alternative explanations such as pandemic …

System (PPS) for hospitals based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) to assess their impact on health and on the use of health … care services. We consider survey data for the years 1993-2007 with information on both individualsÄ perceived health and … their utilization of health care services. Results suggest that the introduction of market incentives via a fixed …

market. These health care services are obtained normally through insurance contracts. In this paper, I seek explanations for …In Scandinavia, the provision of health care services has been, almost entirely, the responsibility of the public … health care system. However, in the last five to seven years there has been remarkable growth in the private health care …

We consider an economy where most of the health care is publicly provided,and where there is waiting time for several … cost, the self-selection induced redistribution may implythat it is socially optimal to provide health care publicly and at … for public health treatment. Moreover, we studythe interaction between this quality decision and the optimal tax …

on health care quality, health care financing and welfare. We show that without patient mobility quality is too low (high …

-sharing. Moreover, we do not find evidence for health improvements due to longer stays for marginal Medicaid beneficiaries. …