Governments in many low- and middle-income countries are developing health insurance products as a complement to tax …-funded, subsidized provision of health care through publicly operated facilities. This paper discusses two rationales for this transition …. First, health insurance would boost fiscal revenues for health care, as post-treatment out-of-pocket payments to providers …

expressing health care-seeking behavior as a function of economic and behavioral fundamentals and highlighting the role of trust …. We report several findings. First, we document a strong association between higher levels of trust in the health care … scenarios, from routine check-ups to vaccinations. Second, the impact of trust on health care utilization is similar in …

We study the role of physicians in driving geographic variation of US healthcare utilization. We estimate a model that …, and that at least a third of geographic differences in healthcare utilization can be explained by differences in average …

questions of waste and productivity in the U.S. health care system. Using linked mortality and Electronic Medical Records, we …-year mortality by 29.7 deaths per 10,000 among compliers, implying that a 10% increase in health care appointments reduces mortality …The contraction in health care consumption at the start of the pandemic provides insight into central economic …

background, revealing an important role that vaccination efforts can play in narrowing inequities in health and healthcare. More …The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected the United States healthcare system, resulting in major disruptions in … practices. There is little empirical evidence on the types of policies or innovations that are effective in shaping healthcare …

Moral hazard and provider-induced demand may contribute to overutilization of scarce health care resources. The U ….S. health care system includes several compensatory cost-containment mechanisms, but their effects depend on how patients and …

We report results from the first randomization of a regulatory reform in the health sector. The reform established … epidemics. In our experiment, all 1348 health facilities in three Kenyan counties were classified into 273 markets, and the … markets were then randomly allocated to treatment and control groups. Government inspectors visited health facilities and …

There is substantial evidence that cost-sharing in medical care constrains total health spending. However, there is … relatively little (and unclear) evidence on its health effects, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. This paper re …-evaluates the link between outpatient cost-sharing and health, studying Colombia's entire formal sector workforce observed monthly …

between 12% and 17%. However, other health care expenditures would only increase slightly, and the mortality rate would … since its creation in 1965 -- will improve the health of elderly Americans, and how much it will cost. We model how … insurance affects medical care utilization, and subsequently, health outcomes over time in a dynamic model with correlated …

their intrinsic shortcomings; expenditures depend on preferences, health status, and prices, while outcomes are strongly … growth in health care expenditures among low income elderly people has not translated into relative improvement either in …Has U.S. health care for the elderly become more equitable during the past several decades? When inequality is measured …