In der Gesundheitspolitik spielt der Beitragssatz in der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung eine wichtige Rolle. Ein viel zitiertes Gutachten der PROGNOS AG, das vielen gesundheits- und sozialpolitischen Entscheidungen zugrunde liegt, prognostiziert einen Anstieg des durchschnittlichen...

The paper analyses the relationship between health and education in a two period human capital framework. The resulting substitution and investment effects between health and advanced training work in opposite direction and leave open questions for the empirical part. As econometric model we use...

The decision to contact a physician and the decision about how often to contact a physician are determined by different decisionmakers. We introduce a negative binomial distributed hurdle model that specifies the two stages of the decisionmaking process as different stochastic processes, while...