We use a Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) to evaluate the impact of cost-sharing on the use of health services. In … the Italian health system, individuals reaching age 65 and earning low incomes are given total exemption from cost …-sharing for health services consumption. Since the probability of exemption changes discontinuously at age 65, we use a Fuzzy RDD …

unknown whether mental health morbidity causally leads to addictive behaviours. This paper utilises a fixed effects … instrumental variables model, which is identified by time-varying sources of plausibly exogenous variations in mental health, and a … of smokers, and is slightly higher for males. Our findings highlight the importance of mental health screening and …

The growth of novel flexible work formats raises a number of questions about their effects upon health and the …-employment in terms of health. In addition to variation in work status of each individual over time, we also consider variation … driven by a number of novel instrumental variables. We also focus on an objective health outcome -hospital admissions- that …