the demand for health-care services. Using data from the 1991-2006 waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we find …-serious medical situations are found to be more sensitive to prices. We observe little impact on patient health, as measured by self …-reported poor health status …

Heavily subsidizing essential health products through existing health infrastructure has the potential to substantially … limited accountability among health workers seriously undermines the effectiveness of such programs. We performed innovative … audits on bed net distribution programs in three countries (Ghana, Kenya and Uganda) to investigate local agency problems and …

We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we … investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better … female health speeds up the demographic transition and thereby the take-off toward sustained economic growth. By contrast …

I explore the connection between income inequality and health in both poor and rich countries. I discuss a range of … conclude that there is no direct link from income inequality to ill-health; individuals are no more likely to die if they live … not a health risk does not deny the importance for health of other inequalities, nor of the social environment. Whether …

The effect of new health information on individuals' expectations about their longevity is examined using a Bayesian … more extensive advice on health behavior from their physicians. The subjective probability of survival declines with health …

A large fraction of Uganda's population continues to earn a living from quasi-subsistence agriculture. This paper uses …

based discrimination does not play an important role in the racial disparities in health care …

Several countries rely on regulated health plan competition to combine affordability of health plans with incentives … equalization to compensate health plans for predictable variation in medical spending. An extensive empirical literature shows … individuals with basic health insurance in the Netherlands. We evaluate empirically the benefits of constraints in terms of …

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