health indicators, especially for women. Using data from rural Nigeria on individual illnesses and injuries as well as the …, but it fully eliminates the observed gender gap in addition to broadening the capacity of the health sector to respond to …

We exploit an age discontinuity in a Dutch disability insurance (DI) reform to identify the health impact of stricter … negative health effect on females is restricted to women with low pre-disability earnings. We hypothesize that the gender … difference in the effect is due to the reform tightening eligibility particularly with respect to mental health conditions, which …

coverage for health care but earnings losses are uninsured. Even with comprehensive health care entitlement, severe illness …

The Netherlands is among the top spenders on health in the OECD. We document the life-cycle profile, concentration and …. Spending on health care is strongly concentrated: the one per cent of individuals with the highest levels of expenditure …-term care, which amounts to one third of all expenditure on health care, is even more concentrated: the top one per cent …

Little is known about perceptions of medical expenditure risks despite their presumed relevance to health insurance … who are offered the opportunity to purchase health insurance. We find that expectations are positively correlated with … realized expenditures to some extent, there is no evidence that expectations influence the decision to take out health …

health insurance. A premium subsidy had a persistent effect on enrollment that is more than four fifths of the immediate …

In this paper we hypothesize that education is associated with a higher efficiency of health investment, yet that this … efficiency advantage is solely driven by intelligence. We operationalize efficiency of health investment as the probability of … the higher educated to be more efficient users of health investment - intelligent individuals have a clear survival …