We investigate whether people enrolled into voluntary health insurance (VHI) substitute public consumption with private … the case of Italy, where a mixed insurance system is in place. To this purpose, we specify a joint model for public and … private specialist visits counts, and allow for different degrees of endogenous supplementary insurance coverage, looking at …

individuals are differently motivated in that they have different missions, and their self-selection into sectors or organizations … with matching missions enhances organizational efficiency. We test Besley and Ghatak's model using data from a unique … cohort study. We generate two proxies for intrinsic motivations: a survey-based measure of the health professionals …

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 …

Most developing countries face shortages of health workers in rural areas. This has profound consequences for health … service delivery, and ultimately for health outcomes. To design policies that rectify these geographic imbalances it is vital … to understand what factors determine health workers' choice to work in rural areas. But empirical analysis of health …

The U.S. health system has been described as the most competitive, heterogeneous, inefficient, fragmented, and advanced … system of care in the world. In this paper, we consider two questions: First, is the U.S. health care system productively … efficient relative to other wealthy countries, in the sense of producing better health for a given bundle of hospital beds …

and fairness misallocations in individual health insurance markets …The conventional method for developing health care plan payment systems uses existing data to study alternative … algorithms with the purpose of creating incentives for an efficient and fair health care system. In this paper, we take a …

, such as the prevalence of insurance and of public sector involvement …

All developed countries have been struggling with a trend toward health care absorbing an ever-larger fraction of … government and private budgets. Adopting any treatment that improves health outcomes, no matter what the cost, can worsen … allocative inefficiency by paying dearly for small health gains. One potential solution is to rely more heavily on studies of the …