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

This paper outlines changes that have been made in the 2019 version of the Health Equity and Financial Protection … refinements to the estimation of out-of-pocket expenditures. On the health equity side, the 2019 database includes 198 more data …

Michael Grossman's seminal publication on the demand for health and health production (Grossman 1972) has spawned a … substantial body of research focusing on the production of infant health. This article provides a systematic review of the … published literature to date on infant health production and how it has evolved over the past 3-4 decades as data have become …

This paper discusses health economics as a behavioral science and as input into health policy and health services … research. I illustrate the dual role with data on publications and citations of two leading health economics journals and three … leading American health economists. Five important, relatively new topics in economics are commended to health economists who …

reduced medical care than have individuals in Great Britain, Canada, France, and Germany, all countries with universal health …

The Three-Gap Model examines the determinants of low-quality health care by examining the patterns and determinants of … perform-this paper defines three gaps for each health worker: the gap between target performance and what they have the … across health workers in a sample can be used to diagnose failures in the system as well as evaluate the outcomes of policy …

We investigate the effect of managed care on the health care system, focusing on the effects managed care could have on … the number and types of health care providers and their efficiency. By influencing providers, managed care may change the … structure and performance of the entire health care system in ways that influence care provided to all patients. We begin by …

Health care providers may vertically integrate not only to facilitate coordination of care, but also for strategic … health outcomes. Our findings suggest that subjecting integrated providers to higher-powered reimbursement incentives, i ….e., less cost-sharing, may enhance medical productivity. More generally, we conclude that it may be efficient for purchasers of …