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 …

formal insurance in a setting where donors make redistributive transfers to anonymously paired recipients. We find that … donors reduce their transfers to recipients who don't take-up insurance, and that this effect is larger for donors who hold … the ex ante belief that the recipient is more likely to take-up insurance. The findings are consistent with a model of a …

We study the impact of insurance on the amount of fraud in a physician-patient relationship. In a market for credence …

We study how measures of socioeconomic health inequality inform about welfare inequality. We argue that transfers of … either income or health from a better off to a worse off individual should reduce welfare inequality. Lacking an objective … income, health or socioeconomic health. This puts restrictions on measures of socioeconomic health inequality, where a …

annuity markets and tax deductibility of private health expenditures. …

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 …

We study the effects of the largest adverse health shock in modern medicine - the 1918 influenza pandemic - on … subsequent shifts in health-related attitudes and behavior and future-oriented policies. Our analysis builds upon self … influenza leads to a decline in societal support for public health measures at the aggregate level, mainly triggered by deceased …

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 …

We study biased survival expectations across two domains and examine whether such biased expectations influence health …'s family history (parental age at death) to estimate the effect of BSE on health and financial behaviors and compare it to BME …