Why do low income patients tend to go to lower quality health care providers, even when they are free? We show that …

developed health systems. This paper provides new evidence on the role senior doctors play in determining patient outcomes. I … from a standard deviation increase in the physician’s 3-year caseload equivalent to around 6% of a standard deviation in …

This paper was prepared as Work Package IV of the AHEAD project – Ageing, Health Status and the Determinants of Health … this work package was to build up a picture of the movements in health status of the elderly population of each country in … the EU by age and sex. Residential care and death were considered as well as states of health. Due to the scarcity of data …