Background: Health care expenditures (HCE) are known to steepen with increasing age, but the contributions of biological age, morbidity, or proximity to death as cost drivers are debated. Age-associated HCE growth can be studied across two dimensions: within fixed groups of persons with the same...

Using representative and geocoded data from the Swiss Household Panel (SHP) and the Swiss Business Census, we estimate the effect of sports activity on health. OLS models show that sports activity significantly decreases overweight, sleeping problems, headaches, back problems, and perceived...

In the search for improved healthcare systems able to cope with rising costs, policy-makers are likely to turn to mixed-economy solutions. The lure of integrating the best of both worlds generally leads to a blend of public and private providers, high regulation density as well as legal...