Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients' right to EU-wide provider choice …. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility … on health care quality, health care financing and welfare. We show that without patient mobility quality is too low (high …

mobility crucially depend on their exact locations. …

We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children first … enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects mobility and reduces the relative advantage of … children of better educated parents. -- Age at entry ; intergenerational transmission of education ; educational mobility …

public primary schools generates plausibly exogenous variation in program exposure across different birth cohorts. We exploit …

small schools experience the most detrimental effects. The effects appear to weaken over time, suggesting that part of the …

development through improving the quality of schools. While we consider the impact for each state of a range of educational …