rising health care costs are pressuring private and social insurance schemes to shift toward more cost-sharing measures. This … extent Slovenia, unhealthy citizens face considerably higher medical costs than do the healthy. As many as one-quarter of … the financial burden of OOP costs. The levels of high OOP spending uncovered, and their disparate weight on those with …

rising health care costs are pressuring private and social insurance schemes to shift toward more cost-sharing measures. This … extent Slovenia, unhealthy citizens face considerably higher medical costs than do the healthy. As many as one-quarter of … the financial burden of OOP costs. The levels of high OOP spending uncovered, and their disparate weight on those with …

forced to reduce some fixed percentage of emissions at home? Can carbon sinks reduce costs? Will people adopt new energy …

This paper explores some costs associated with environmental regulation. We focus on regulation pertaining to ground … operating costs. As an alternative way to assess costs, we also employ plant-level data from the Pollution Abatement Costs and … Expenditures (PACE) survey. Analyses employing average total cost functions reveal that plants' production costs are indeed higher …

We analyze mortality and follow-up costs of heart attack patients using administrative data from Austria from 2002 … in relative terms for patients below the age of 65. We do not find significant effects on longterm inpatient costs and … find only marginal increases in outpatient costs. …

We analyze mortality and follow-up costs of heart attack patients using administrative data from Austria from 2002 … in relative terms for patients below the age of 65. We do not find significant effects on longterm inpatient costs and … find only marginal increases in outpatient costs. …

We analyze mortality and follow-up costs of heart attack patients using administrative data from Austria from 2002 … in relative terms for patients below the age of 65. We do not find significant effects on long-term inpatient costs and … find only marginal increases in outpatient costs. …