theory to the market for outpatient surgical procedures in order to compare the entry and exit patterns of firms in a mature …, our results extend niche overlap theory to settings in which two different organizational forms compete and demonstrate …

This dissertation consists of three essays on health economics. Lack of incentive to protect asset has been one of the …

Results from this study indicate that non-adherence in hemodialysis (HD) sessions marginally affects health care costs … impacts of non-adherence in HD sessions on health care costs and kidney transplantation failure, and uses a conventional non …

Objective. To determine the impact of rising health insurance premiums on coverage rates.Data Sources & Study Setting …) surveyed in the Current Population Survey in 1989–1991 and 1998–2000. Measures of premiums are based on data from the Health … Insurance Association of America and the Kaiser Family Foundation/Health Research and Educational Trust Survey of Employer …

Although theories in both evolutionary biology and economics predict that an individual’s health should be associated … collecting detailed measures of health, time preference, and expected longevity on a sample of individuals in townships around … preference and health, in an area of the world with high mortality and morbidity. Interestingly, we find that both physical …

informed choices about foods with enhanced health attributes.The degree to which a particular jurisdiction permits health … claims for food products and the type of allowable health claim influence the information set available to consumers. In … Canada the regulatory environment governing health claims for functional food products issomewhat more restrictive than in …

of the health effects associated with exposure to wildfire smoke using a simple cost of illness approach and for the …

analysis is to investigate the importance of health, education, and infrastructure indicators for income growth. The second … health. Only the higher education of poor urban households seems to have affected prospects for growing out of poverty, and …