Many health care systems aim to enhance hospital quality by encouraging competition. However, evidence on the …

This paper empirically assesses the relative role of health plan prices, service quality and optional benefits in the … decision to choose a health plan. We link representative German SOEP panel data from 2007 to 2010 to (i) health plan service … quality indicators, (ii) measures of voluntary benefit provision on top of federally mandated benefits, and (iii) health plan …

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 … market price dispersion. Moreover, it (b) characterizes health plan switchers and their annual and cumulative switching rates …

This paper investigates cost and profit efficiency of German hospitals. More specifically, it deals with the question … how hospital efficiency varies with ownership, patient structure,and other exogenous factors, which are neither inputs nor … hospitals. -- Hospital efficiency ; ownership ; stochastic frontier analysis ; profit function …

effects are especially pronounced for men. I provide evidence that this is likely caused by changes towards adverse health … behaviours as a reaction to stress. Investigating the possible protective effects of mental health support, I find that it can … associated with mental health care. Finally, I show that my results are robust to specific departure of my identifying …

hospital capacities, capital, and funding by the statutory health insurance (SHI). This prompts hospitals to hire more … health ministers to ministers of other professions in Germany during 1955-2017. German state health ministers have great … power to determine hospital capacities and infrastructure. Our results show that physician-trained health ministers increase …

Malaria kills about 1,500 children every day. Based on the Demographic and Health Surveys, we examine malaria treatment … practices of various health care providers in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 90 percent of the world’s deaths due to … malaria occur. To assess the quality of each health care provider (including, among others, public health centers and …