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 …

health insurance and pensions. Benefit bundling may increase informality and decrease welfare. Indeed, if some of the … key reform is the unification of the payment systems for health and pension, which made it more difficult to contribute …

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. …

Nationwide health interventions are difficult to evaluate as contemporaneous control groups do not exist and before … intervention has no direct effect on the health outcome but influences the outcome only through its effect on individual behavior … behavior, for which a conditional before-after assumption is more plausible; and (ii) the effect of the behavior on the health …