central problems in public finance, including the optimal structure of health insurance and optimal life cycle savings. In …If the marginal utility of consumption depends on health status, this will affect the economic analysis of a number of … this paper, we describe the promises and challenges of various approaches to estimating the effect of health on the …

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 …

's cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children …'s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. These results suggest that the effect of parents' education on … children's education may work partly through the positive effect that parental education has on children's skills and health. …

Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we investigate the impact of health on domestic migration within … the United States. We find that, for men below 60 years of age, a move from the middle to the bottom of the health … find evidence that, among older men, there is higher mobility at the top and bottom of the health distribution than there …

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 …

impact of home births on the health of low-risk newborns using data from the Netherlands, the only developed country where … contributing to these health gains. …

This paper provides new estimates of the medium and long-term impacts of Head Start on the health and behavioral … neighboring a single discontinuity). Participation in the program reduces the incidence of behavioral problems, serious health …