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 …

, we contrast producer liability and minimum quality standard regulation as alternative means of social control of product … relative desirability of strict liability vis-à-vis minimum quality standard regulation from a social welfare standpoint. We … also clarify when and why joint use of strict liability and minimum quality standard regulation welfare dominates the …

) transparency or if consumers’ privacy preference differs across countries. Unilateral data regulation by each country addresses the …

In a model where consumers have quasi-hyperbolic preferences, we compare immediate subsidies paid for health …-conscious consumption and future subsidies rewarding good health outcome. We characterize the subsidy rates which implement the unbiased …

decreases, and the two have different implications for human health. An alternative measure for net current biological …

The distribution of health inequalities appears to exhibit a different pattern when samples of developing countries are … examined. One explanation is the existence of a health Kuznets ́curve. This paper sets out as an exploratory analysis to test … the latter hypothesis of an inverse U shape pattern between both economic and health development and income inequalities …

relate this process with health and retirement issues. Five dimensions of the ageing process have been considered: population … major individual lifetime landmarks have been evolving in a way that may not be mutually compatible. As for how health …

Culture is an under-studied determinant of health production and seldom measured. This paper empirically examines the … persistence and association of health capital assessments of first and second-generation migrants with that of their ancestral … persistence of health assessments. Culture persists, rather than fades, and further, appears to strengthen over generations. We …