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Age and choice in health insurance: Evidence from Switzerland

Becker, Karolin; Zweifel, Peter - 2007

Elements of regulation inherent in most social health insurance systems are a uniform package of benefits and uniform cost sharing. Both elements risk to burden the population with a welfare loss if preferences differ. This suggests introducing more contracted choice; however, it is widely...

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Cost sharing in health insurance: An instrument for risk selection?

Becker, Karolin; Zweifel, Peter - 2005

Health insurance is potentially subject to risk selection, i.e. adverse selection on the part of consumers and cream skimming on the part of insurers. Adverse selection models predict that competitive health insurers can eschew high-risk individuals by offering contracts with low deductibles or...

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Consumer resistance against regulation: The case of health care

Zweifel, Peter; Telser, Harry; Vaterlaus, Stephan - 2005

Regulation fostering Managed Care alternatives in health insurance is spreading. This work reports on an experiment designed to measure the amounts of compensation asked by the Swiss population (in terms of reduced premiums) for Managed-Care type restrictions in the provision of health care. It...

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Early Socialization and the Gender Wage Gap

Getik, Demid; Meier, Armando N. - 2021

environment in the primary-school cohort to later occupations and wages. We find that women exposed to more girls at this critical … to a more female-dominated environment select into less gender-stereotypical occupations with higher wage potential. The … gender environment at an early age, therefore, shapes career trajectories and lifetime earnings. …

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GPs' preferences: What price fee-for-service?

Zweifel, Peter; Rischatsch, Maurus; Brändle, Angelika - 2009

In mixed health care systems a crucial condition for the success of Managed Care (MC) plans is to win over a su±cient number of general practitioners (GPs) acting as gatekeepers. This contribution reports on GPs' willingness-to-accept (WTA) or compensation asked, respectively, for changing from...

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Value of Life, Value of Time, and Constant Relative Risk Aversion Utility.

Feldman, Allan M. - 1998

This paper develops two straightforward value of life models; one is a probabilistic value of life model and the second is a determinstic value of time model. Simplifying assumptions allow both models to be solved analytically. Constant relative risk aversion utility functions are used, and both...

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Dread and Risk Elimination Premium for the Value of a Statistical Life

Olofsson, Sara; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Hultkrantz, Lars; … - 2016

The Value of a Statistical Life (VSL) is a widely used measure of the value of mortality risk reduction. Since VSL should reflect preferences and attitudes to risk, there are reasons to believe that it varies depending on the type of risk involved. It has been argued that cancer should be...

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Measuring the End of Life Premium in Cancer using Individual ex ante Willingness to Pay

Olofsson, Sara; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Hultkrantz, Lars; … - 2016

For the assessment of value of new therapies in healthcare, Health Technology Assessment (HTA) agencies often review the cost per Quality-Adjusted Life-Years (QALY) gained. Some HTAs accept a higher cost per QALY gained when treatment is aimed at prolonging survival for patients with a short...

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Value of a QALY and VSI Estimated with the Chained Approach

Olofsson, Sara; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Hultkrantz, Lars; … - 2016

The value of a Quality-Adjusted Life-Year (QALY) and the Value of a Statistical Injury (VSI) are important measures within health economics and transport economics. Several studies have therefore estimated people's WTP for these estimates, but most results show problems with scale insensitivity....

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Chained Approach vs Contingent Valuation for Estimating the Value of Risk Reduction

Olofsson, Sara; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Hultkrantz, Lars; … - 2016

To decide how much resources to spend on reducing mortality risk, governmental agencies in several countries turn to the value of a statistical life (VSL). VSL has been shown to vary depending on the size of the risk reduction, which indicates that WTP does not increase near-proportional in...

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