endogenous health-based spatial sorting of involved agents and data limitations on out-of-hospital mortality. Using policy … health care sector, and data on all AMI deaths in Sweden over two decades, estimation results show a clear robust and …

In this study, the authors have tried to examine the empirical evidence on the relationship between preventive health … role of preventive health care in boosting the corporate sector's performance and improving the country's economy. Toward … employees in Delhi and the National Capital Region. Preventive health care holds enormous promise for the competitiveness of …

-experimental evidence on the impact of fiscal decentralization on health disparities between- and within-regions. Our findings, robust to a …

With regard to their future health, adolescents are at a critical stage. Previous evaluations have shown that health … designed a field experiment to evaluate the effectiveness of financial incentives to promote participation in health screenings … treatment group received a e40 shopping voucher if they participated in an age-specific health screening. On average, the …

With regard to their future health, adolescents are at a critical stage. Previous evaluations have shown that health … designed a field experiment to evaluate the effectiveness of financial incentives to promote participation in health screenings … treatment group received a e40 shopping voucher if they participated in an age-specific health screening. On average, the …

While the health risks associated with smoking are well known, the impact on income distributions is not. This paper … extends the literature by examining the distributional effects of a behavioral choice, in this case smoking, on net marginal … NMSSTR than nonsmokers. In addition, as low-earnings workers have a higher smoking prevalence than high-earnings workers …

India's health sector. The results reveal that the public health system is seemingly more equitable in a few states, while … regressivity in the pattern of public health-care utilization is observed in others. Both results are to be considered with caution …-in of inpatients, making the public health-care system simply appear more equitable. However, patients voting with their …

Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health …-screening program on individuals' health status and health care cost. To account for selection into treatment, we used regional … screening participation substantially increased inpatient and outpatient health care costs for up to two years after treatment …

rates on access and health outcomes for beneficiaries. In this paper, we exploit within-state variation in Medicaid … associated with significant increases in doctors' visits, improvements in access measures, better self-reported health, and fewer …