Dette er en foreløbig og oversigtlig afrapportering baseret på den største systematiske undersøgelse af syge-og sundhedsforsikringer i Danmark. Godt 5.400 mennesker mellem 18-75 år blev interviewet i juni måned 2009, jfr. Health Economics Paper 2009:3. Formålet med notatet er ikke at...

This paper estimates the effects of a workplace health promotion program adopted in selected bluecollar trades in Denmark on public expenditurerelated outcomes. A key policy question in many countries is whether such programs represent an effective means of reducing some of the public’s...

We analyse pharmaceutical imports in the Danish hospital sector. In this market medicines are publicly tendered using first-price sealed-bid procurement auctions. We analyse whether parallel imports have an effect on pharmaceutical prices and whether the way tenders were organised matters for...

This study addresses the use of health care by the poor in a universal health care system. The results show that the poor make the least use of all health care services, with or without copayments. Differences in health care use at the upper end of the income distribution vanish when controlling...

This paper examines the short- and medium-term effects of the PensionDanmark Health Scheme, the largest privately administered health program for workers in Denmark, which provides prevention and early management of work-related injuries. We use a difference-in-differences approach that exploits...

This study estimates the labor market effects of a work-first policy that aimed at speeding up the labor market integration of refugees. The policy added new requirements for refugees to actively search for jobs and to participate in on-the-job training immediately upon arrival in the host...

We analyze an immigration reform in Denmark that tightened refugee immigrants' eligibility criteria for permanent residency to incentivize their labor market attachment and acquisition of local language skills. Contrary to what the reform intended, the overall employment of those affected...

This study provides the first estimates of the causal impact of education on hospitalization. It improves upon existing studies on health and education by using a larger data set and more efficient estimation methods. Using a Danish school reform to identify a causal effect of education on...

Sample selection and endogeneity are frequent causes of biases in non-experimental empirical studies. In binary models a standard solution involves complex multivariate models. A simple approximation has been shown to work well in bivariate models. This paper extends the approximation to a...