there is substantial variation in the quality of physicians, as measured by patients' post-assignment mortality, in the …

endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the expulsion of Jewish physicians from health insurance schemes by the …This paper investigates the effect of physicians on infant mortality, stillbirths and the incidence of common childhood … measles, influenza and bronchitis. To investigate diminishing returns to health care provision, we develop a semiparametric …

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 … market. These health care services are obtained normally through insurance contracts. In this paper, I seek explanations for …

There has been substantial public policy concern over the relatively low rates of health insurance coverage among the … the self-employed and wage-earners differ both with respect to insurance coverage and utilization of a variety of health … care services. Our results suggest that for the self-employed, the link between insurance and utilization of health care …

This paper investigates the impact of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) dependent coverage mandate on health insurance … coverage rates and health care utilization among young adults. Using data from the Medical Panel Expenditure Survey, I exploit … the discontinuity in health insurance coverage rates at age 26, the new dependent coverage age cutoff enforced by the ACA …

This paper analyses the relationship between locus of control (LOC) and the demand for supplementary health insurance …. Drawing on longitudinal data from Germany, we find robust evidence that individuals having an internal LOC are more likely to … take up supplementary private health insurance (SUPP). The increase in the probability to have a SUPP due to one standard …

consumption without compromising health care quality poses one of the most important global health policy challenges. A crucial … condition for designing effective policies is to identify who drives antibiotic treatment decisions, physicians or patient … demand. We measure the causal effect of physician practice style on antibiotic intake and health outcomes exploiting …

We consider lifetime health insurance contracts in which ageing provisions are used to smooth the premium profile. The …

Several empirical studies provide evidence that their actual health state affects people's attitudes towards health and … medical care in hypothetical health states. In the tradition of behavioural economics this paper considers the actual health … state as a point of reference and builds a model for studying the implications of this phenomenon on health insurance and on …