This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as … provided at family health centers, which operate on a walk-in basis and are located within the neighborhoods in close proximity … health. …

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 …

'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. …

We examine provider responses to the expansion of public subsidies in 2015 for oral chemotherapy treatment, in a health …

-need patient group as out of pocket costs are considered a barrier to access to health care. Governments may respond to the long …

some probability individuals are healthy and do not need any therapeutic health care. Otherwise they become ill and the … the health status is determined while curative care is chosen ex post. Insurance benefits depend on preventive and … health status is ex post publicly observable, insurance benefits are flat (lump sum payments) and do not depend on …

This paper studies the design of health insurance with ex post moral hazard, when there is imperfect competition in the …

private hospitals for women with public health insurance. Using a difference-in-differences (DID) approach based on the …

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 …