We investigate whether people enrolled into voluntary health insurance (VHI) substitute public consumption with private … the case of Italy, where a mixed insurance system is in place. To this purpose, we specify a joint model for public and … private specialist visits counts, and allow for different degrees of endogenous supplementary insurance coverage, looking at …

We investigate whether people enrolled into voluntary health insurance (VHI) substitute public consumption with private … provision of private goods ; health insurance ; bivariate count data model ; endogenous multinomial treatment ; simultaneous … the case of Italy, where a mixed insurance system is in place. To this purpose, we specify a joint model for public and …

In this paper we use data coming from the new Italian Survey on Health Aging and Wealth (SHAW) to analyse physician … the relative importance of variables like income, education, private insurance and supply characteristics as determinants … of the utilization of such services, while controlling for individual health and need. We do that by estimating some …

We investigate whether people enrolled into voluntary health insurance (VHI) substitute public consumption with private … the case of Italy, where a mixed insurance system is in place. To this purpose, we specify a joint model for public and … private specialist visits counts, and allow for different degrees of endogenous supplementary insurance coverage, looking at …

likely to choose private hospitals; and that dominant drivers of sorting between public and private providers are health … suggest differences in health explain 18% of the difference in the use of private providers between rich and poor patients … market frictions, limited variation in payments made to hospitals according to patient health means that sorting is estimated …

We investigate whether people enrolled into voluntary health insurance (VHI) substitute public consumption with private … the case of Italy, where a mixed insurance system is in place. To this purpose, we specify a joint model for public and … private specialist visits counts, and allow for different degrees of endogenous supplementary insurance coverage, looking at …

We investigate whether people enrolled into voluntary health insurance (VHI) substitute public consumption with private … the case of Italy, where a mixed insurance system is in place. To this purpose, we specify a joint model for public and … private specialist visits counts, and allow for different degrees of endogenous supplementary insurance coverage, looking at …

This paper considers the influence of patients' characteristics on their evaluation of a health system's responsiveness …, that is, a system's ability to respond to the legitimate expectations of potential users regarding non-health enhancing … standard socio-demographic characteristics influence the reporting style of health care users with regard to the question of …