Longevity expectations (LE) are subjective assessments of future health status that can influence a number of … individual health protective decisions. This is especially true during a pandemic such as COVID-19, as the risk of ill health … on protective health behaviours and a number of decisions around access to health care, using data from the Survey of …

Although a significant number of middle and low-income countries have expanded access to subsidized health insurance …, it still is unclear whether these insurance expansions improve children's health, This paper exploits quasi … children's health, We find that access to insurance reduces childhood obesity and exerts positive and economically significant …

We study the effect of health insurance expansion on nutrition-related children's health outcomes. We exploit quasi … obesity and exerts positive and economically significant effects on some preventive health care utilization and behaviours …

exert behavioural spillover effects on (i) a number of health behaviours, and (ii) on individuals not directly affected by … men). WSBs are found to influence health behaviours of those not directly affected by the reform, such as never smokers …. Our findings are consistent with a model of joint formation of health behaviours, and suggest of the needs to account for …

constituents on the use of health care, and specifically maternal and preventive care services. We examine the development of … institutions of self-governance in India, and specifically the 2005 reform - the National Rural Health Mission that introduced … village health and sanitation committees - to study the effects of the strengthening of the political agency on collective …

Although measures of sensitivity to inequality are important in judging the welfare effects of health-care programmes …, it is far from straightforward how to elicit them and apply them in health-care decision making. This paper provides an … overview of the literature on the measurement of inequality aversion, examines some of the features specific of the health …