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 …

One cornerstone of current attempts to reform the German public health care system by introducing private insurance … insurance expenditures. The paper applies various methods for count data analysis of the frequency of hospital trips. Contrary … to comparative studies for other countries, we find that there is no significant impact of insurance schemes on …

The paper evaluates the German health care reform of 1997, using the individual number of doctor visits as outcome …

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 …

This paper provides field evidence on (a) how price framing affects consumers' decision to switch health insurance … plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be influenced by policymakers through simple … regulatory efforts. In 2009, in order to foster competition among health insurance companies, German federal regulation required …

effectiveness of four different health care cost containment measures within an integrated framework. The four measures investigated … were introduced in Germany in 1997 to reduce moral hazard and public health expenditures in the market for convalescent … health spa stays did not significantly reduce demand. …