In Germany, employees are generally obliged to participate in the public health insurance system, where coverage is … instead if their income exceeds the compulsory insurance threshold. Here, premia are based on age and health, individuals may … private insurance coverage on the number of doctor visits, the number of nights spent in a hospital and self-assessed health …

We examine how substance use disorder (SUD) treatment providers respond to private health insurance expansions induced …

We study the impact of a mixed capitation model known as the Family Health Organization (FHO) on selected quality and … quantity outcomes relative to an enhanced fee-for-service model known as the Family Health Group (FHG) among primary care … physicians in Ontario, Canada. Using a panel of administrative data that covers one year before and two years after the FHO model …

Roughly a quarter of physicians in the United States are either international medical graduates (IMGs) or foreign …-born physicians (FBPs). We propose a theoretical model where patient preferences that disfavor IMGs and FBPs may result in those … physicians offering better access to their services compared with non-IMGs/FBPs in equilibrium. We use data from two field …

expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in …This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel … data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the …

of education on health behaviors. Using the number of academic track schools in a state as an instrumental variable for … years of schooling, we investigate the causal effect of schooling on health behavior such as smoking and related outcomes …

We study theoretically and empirically how consumers in an individual private longterm health insurance market with …

To equalize differences in health plan premiums due to differences in risk pools, the German legislature introduced a …, consumers gained the freedom to choose among hundreds of existing health plans, across employers and state-borders. This paper … impact on market price dispersion. Moreover, it (b) characterizes health plan switchers and investigates their annual and …

We examine the health impacts of early access to public pension wealth by exploiting a unique policy in Singapore … anticipated and lagged health impacts, we adopt the donut regression discontinuity approach. Using nationally representative … monthly panel data, we find that early access to pension wealth improves self-reported overall health …

healthcare utilization and health outcomes among non-COVID–19 patients. Using monthly panel data of nationally representative …-of-pocket medical costs, and perceived health. At its peak, doctor visits decreased by 30% and out-of-pocket medical spending decreased …-reported health and sleep quality, COVID–19 increased depressive symptoms by 4%. We argue that it is imperative to monitor COVID–19's …