We use a calibrated stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and life expectancy over the period 1965-2005. We estimate that technological change along with the increase in the...

This paper uses the data of Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2005, a nationally representative sample of 10,080 households in Bangladesh from January, 2005 to December, 2005, to investigate the determinants of illness, choice of health care provider and household out-of-pocket health care...

Doctors and hospitals in the United States serve patients covered by many types of insurance. This overlap in the supply of health care services means that changes in the prices paid or the volume of services demanded by one group of patients may affect other patient groups. This paper examines...