The standard economic model for the demand for health care predicts that unhealthy behaviour such as being overweight or obese should increase the demand for medical care, particularly as clinical studies link obesity to a number of serious diseases. In this paper, we investigate whether...

The standard economic model for the demand for health care predicts that unhealthy behaviour such as being overweight or obese should increase the demand for medical care, particularly as clinical studies link obesity to a number of serious diseases. In this paper, we investigate whether...

We examine how patients’ medical knowledge influences adherence to clinical guidelines in an area where the treatment is common, costly, and rationed by clinical guidelines. Using administrative data on prenatal diagnostic testing (PDT), we compare the testing rates of medically trained...