This paper studies the relationship between the diffusion of innovative procedures for the treatment of heart attack and distributions of the cost and length of hospital stays. Using a sample of 5,681 stays observed in French public hospitals, we use microsimulation techniques to highlight...

Contrary to the traditional view of the health care consumer as an economic agent whose sove-reignty is attenuated, we argue that he is far less ignorant and far less deprived of reason than it is supposed by the tutelary model of health economics. The reason lies in his enhanced level of...

Heterogeneity in time and risk preferences has been proposed as one of the mechanisms involved in the educational gradient in smoking, but this mechanism has scarcely been explored empirically. Subjective scales were introduced in the 2008 French National Health, Health Care and Insurance Survey...