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A Dynamic Analysis of the Demand for Health Insurance and Health Care
Bolhaar, Jonneke; Lindeboom, Maarten; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2008
We investigate the presence of moral hazard and advantageous or adverse selection in a market for supplementary health insurance. For this we specify and estimate dynamic models for health insurance decisions and health care utilization. Estimates of the health care utilization models indicate...
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Informal and Formal Care among Single-living Elderly in Europe
Bolin, K.; Lindgren, B.; Lundborg, P. - 2007
The aims of this study were (1) to analyse whether informal care, provided by children or grandchildren to their elderly parents, and formal care are substitutes or complements, and (2) whether this relationship differs across Europe. The analyses were based on the newly developed SHARE (Survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325251
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The Health Returns to Education - What can we learn from Twins?
Lundborg, Petter - 2008
This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin-differences strategy in order to obtain estimates that are not biased by unobserved family background and genetic traits that may affect both education and health. I further investigate to what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325854
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Dedicated Doctors : Public and Private Provision of Health Care with Altruistic Physicians
Delfgaauw, Josse - 2010
Physicians are supposed to serve patients' interests, but some are more inclined to do so than others. This paper … studies how the system of health care provision affects the allocation of patients to physicians when physicians differ in … altruistic physicians infer that in their absence, NHS patients receive lower treatment quality than private sector patients …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014053269
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When Health Care Insurance does not make a Difference – The Case of Health Care ‘Made in China’
van Dalen, Hendrik P. - 2006
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325389
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Insurance Search and Switching Behavior
Bolhaar, Jonneke; van der Klaauw, Bas; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2010
This paper looks into the search behavior of consumers in the market for health insurance contracts. We consider the recent health insurance reform in The Netherlands, where a private-public mix of insurance provision was replaced by a system based on managed competition. Although all insurers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326059
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Insurance Search and Switching Behavior
Bolhaar, Jonneke; Klaauw, Bas van der; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2010
This paper looks into the search behavior of consumers in the market for health insurance contracts. We consider the recent health insurance reform in The Netherlands, where a private-public mix of insurance provision was replaced by a system based on managed competition. Although all insurers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014193214
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Free Medicines thanks to Retirement: Moral Hazard and Hospitalization Offsets in an NHS
Puig-Junoy, Jaume; Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Casado-Marin, David - 2011
This paper examines the impact of coinsurance exemption for prescription medicines applied to elderly individuals in Spain after retirement. To evaluate this coinsurance change we use a rich administrative dataset that links pharmaceutical consumption and hospital discharge records for the full...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326193
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Dedicated Doctors: Public and Private Provision of Health Care with Altruistic Physicians
Delfgaauw, Josse - 2007
Physicians are supposed to serve patients' interests, but some are more inclined to do so than others. This paper … studies how the system of health care provision affects the allocation of patients to physicians when physicians differ in … altruistic physicians infer that in their absence, NHS patients receive lower treatment quality than private sector patients …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325476
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Insurance and Information: Firms as a Commitment Device
Bovenberg, A.L.; Teulings, Coen N. - 2001
We explore the role of firms in insuring non-verifiable output. As a device that allows workers to commit to thedelivery of their output, the firm arises endogenously as an alternative to the market if workers are sufficiently riskaverse and the firm can base its incentive payments on good...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325071