comparison effect, decrease subsequent demand. This tension is particularly important for the distribution of health products in … Uganda in which three health products differing in their scope for learning were initially offered either for free or for …

Taxes on housing consumption have attractive features. They can enhance overall efficiency, function as automatic …

Patients are reluctant to use telemedicine health services. Telemedicine is an "experience good," one that can be … reports the results of a randomized field experiment conducted in collaboration with a health insurance company in Argentina …. During the intervention, about two thousand households with no previous experience with telemedicine received periodic e …

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

We conduct a stated-choice experiment where respondents are asked to rate various insurance products aimed to protect … equilibrium for long-term care insurance using the framework developped by Einav et al. (2010). We investigate in turn causes for … the low observed take-up of long-term care insurance in Canada despite substantial residual out-of-pocket financial risk …

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 …

attempt to increase hospital efficiency in the German health sector. In this paper changes of hospital efficiency, quantified … as a Malmquist index decomposition in pure technical efficiency change, are analyzed for periods before and after the … reform. We implement a two-stage semi-parametric efficiency model that allows for spatial interdependence among hospitals …

efficiency of health centres in Finland between 1990 and 2003. To address potential non-random or endogenous treatment assignment … insignificant on the productive efficiency of health centres. … contrast to earlier studies, this paper approaches the economies of scale issue by analysing the break-ups of municipal health …

The health care for elderly population remains an important concern in the two populated economies of India and China … the ageing impacts on the aggregate as well as health care expenditures in these two countries, separately for the rural … proportion of health care expenditure, only rural China reveals statistically significant and positive coefficients. …