lower weights than rural residents. Urban net nutrition varied by race, and urban whites and blacks had lower BMIs, shorter …

A substantial literature studies franchise extension, focusing primarily on class-based – rather than race …-based – voting restrictions. This paper constructs and analyzes a novel dataset that codes the presence of race-based restrictions on …

health system decentralization: Italy and Spain. We estimate, decompose, and run counterfactual analysis of regional … inequality in government output (health expenditure per capita) and outcome (health system satisfaction) during expansion of … health care decentralization in both countries. We find no evidence of increase in regional inequalities in outcomes and …

Spatial inequalities in publicly provided goods such as health care facilities have substantial socio-economic effects …

affects health. However, population sorting and other confounders make it difficult to disentangle the effects of place on … health from other geographic differences in life expectancy. Recent studies have overcome such challenges to demonstrate that … place of residence substantially influences health and mortality. Whether policies that encourage people to move to places …

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 …

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 …