This paper deals with the phenomenon of risk-selection and its appearance in the german compulsory health insurance …

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 …

Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general …

Individual moral hazard engendered by health insurance and monopolistic production are both typical phenomena of drug … insurance against the risk of drug expenses. In contrast, the social welfare criterion suggests that individuals should purchase … more insurance coverage than they choose to do in the market equilibrium. …

A central theme in the international debate on genetic testing concerns the extent to which insurance companies should … be allowed to use genetic information in their design of insurance contracts. We analyze this issue within a model with …

of insurance companies, pension funds, and funds for public health care education, which have not yet been properly …The paper describes the issue of the impact of poverty and income inequality on the health of the population using … health to the disadvantage of the poor, and to changes in impoverishment and income inequality associated with payments for …

account (covering education and training), and a health account (covering insurance against sickness and disability). Instead … health and education services, providing social safety nets and redistributing incomes more efficiently. …

's cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children …'s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. These results suggest that the effect of parents' education on … children's education may work partly through the positive effect that parental education has on children's skills and health. …