We study a micro-finance program that provides compulsory health insurance to its borrowers and their spouses. We find … more likely to use the health insurance acquired through his wife's loan than is a woman (through her husband's loan … that the non-borrowing spouses are less likely to file insurance claims than those who are borrowing. Further, a man is …

We examine the personal health situation and how the complexities thereof affect the elderly Austrians' willingness to … accept electronic health records (EHR). Using data from the sixth wave of the SHARE survey in Austria, we find the complexity … of individual health problems and the social integration of individuals influencing the acceptance of EHR. The more the …

We examine the personal health situation and how the complexities thereof affect the elderly Austrians' willingness to … accept electronic health records (EHR). Using data from the sixth wave of the SHARE survey in Austria, we find the complexity … of individual health problems and the social integration of individuals influencing the acceptance of EHR. The more the …

In Germany, private health insurance covers more innovative and costly treatments than public insurance. Moreover … whether these superior features of private insurance actually transfer into better health. I focus on German adolescents who … are still in education to control for selection and account for differences in health-conscious behavior between publicly …

In Germany, private health insurance covers more innovative and costly treatments than public insurance. Moreover … whether these superior features of private insurance actually transfer into better health. I focus on German adolescents who … are still in education to control for selection and account for differences in health-conscious behavior between publicly …

The purpose of this paper is to compare the cost efficiency of private and public property insurance providers in … measurement errors and apply the model to a data set on 19 firms in housing insurance markets in Switzerland. We show that the … public insurance providers are about 20 per cent more cost efficient than their private counterparts. …

central problems in public finance, including the optimal structure of health insurance and optimal life cycle savings. In …If the marginal utility of consumption depends on health status, this will affect the economic analysis of a number of … this paper, we describe the promises and challenges of various approaches to estimating the effect of health on the …

attempt to increase hospital efficiency in the German health sector. In this paper changes of hospital efficiency, quantified … as a Malmquist index decomposition in pure technical efficiency change, are analyzed for periods before and after the … reform. We implement a two-stage semi-parametric efficiency model that allows for spatial interdependence among hospitals …

Moral hazard and adverse selection create inefficiencies in private health insurance markets. The authors use claims … attempted to estimate moral hazard in private health insurance by assuming that individuals respond only to the spot price, end …, economic intuition suggests that the nonlinear budget constraints generated by health insurance plans make these assumptions …

's technological efficiency to help them update their belief about another product's technological efficiency within the same product …