Does medical insurance affect health care demand and in the end contribute to improvements in the health status …? Evidence for China for the year 2004, by means of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), shows that health insurance … does not affect health care demand in a significant manner. Counterfactuals suggest that full insurance coverage of the …

studies how the system of health care provision affects the allocation of patients to physicians when physicians differ in … altruism. We show that allowing for private provision of health care, parallel to (free) treatment in a National Health Service …

studies how the system of health care provision affects the allocation of patients to physicians when physicians differ in … altruism. We show that allowing for private provision of health care, parallel to (free) treatment in a National Health Service …

presence of selection effects and treatment heterogeneity. As an example we present an estimate of the TPE for a rural water …

discriminate between the theoretical parameters. Differences in health knowledge appear to be responsible for the greatest part of … the education disparity in diet. However, when faced with the most explicit health information regarding diet, lower … educated individuals still state choices that imply a lower concern for negative health consequences. This is consistent with a …

Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health … explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education and cognitive functioning. Analysis of eight waves of the US Health …

This study explores global inequality in health status, and decomposes it into within- andbetween-country inequality …. We rely on standardized height indicators as our health indicator sincethey avoid the measurement pitfalls of more … traditional measures of health such as morbidity,mortality and life expectancy. They also avoid measurement problems associated …