Improved health in low-income countries could considerably improve wellbeing and possibly promote economic growth. The … in investing in health and how these barriers can be overcome, and to assess the impacts of subsequent health gains. This … chapter first discusses the methodological pitfalls that field experiments in the health sector are particularly susceptible …

The retail clinic is an innovation that has the potential to improve competition in health care markets. Given concern … about inefficient use of the emergency room (ER) increasing health care costs, we use all ER visits in New Jersey from 2006 …

quality of care? In a randomized experiment at public clinics in Mali, health providers and patients received tailored …

Using a randomized field experiment, we show that health care specialists cream-skim patients by their expected … structural differences in reimbursement rates lead to structural differences in health care access …

If health service delivery is poorly managed, then increases in inputs or ability may not translate into gains in … present results from a randomized field experiment in 80 primary health care centers (PHCs) in Nigeria to evaluate the effects … of a health care management consulting intervention. One set of PHCs received a detailed improvement plan and nine months …

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 …

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 …