This paper examines the savings needed to cover health insurance premiums and out-of-pocket expenses for health care services in retirement and evaluates the use of health savings accounts (HSAs) to save for those expenses. Proponents of HSAs often tout them as a vehicle for funding future...

We re-examine the impact of environmental taxation on health and output, in the presence of labor market frictions. Our main findings are that matching process and wage bargaining introduce new channels of transmission of environmental taxation on the economy such that assuming perfect labor...

An updated version can be found here: "https://ssrn.com/abstract=3698071" https://ssrn.com/abstract=3698071.We re-examine the impact of environmental taxation on health and output, in the presence of labor market frictions. Our main findings are that matching process and wage bargaining...

Social scientists have long documented that many components of socioeconomic status such as income and education have strong ties across generations. However, health status, arguably a more critical component of welfare, has largely been ignored. We fill this void by providing the first...

This paper aims at investigating the presence of extra profits for the factoring companies operating with health sector credits. Using a panel data sample representative of Italian factoring companies, the analysis also examines, along with other factors, the determinants of corporate financial...

This paper examines whether there is variation by worker income on how an HSA-eligible health plan affects health care services use and spending. Does the typically flat-dollar gap between a health plan's deductible and the employer contribution to a health savings account (HSA) have a bigger...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the Technical Efficiency through an Efficiency Study of Health Units of the Greek Ministry of Health, before and during the start of the Economic Crisis in Greece.Design/methodology/approach – The research has been designed to collect...

Using a field experiment and an efficiency study that employs a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) modeling framework, we find that stakeholder engagement via instrumental communication improves the efficiency of delivering medical care in the oncology clinic of a major hospital. Importantly, we...

The right to health has been repeatedly recognized as one of the core human rights, essential for human functioning, human dignity, economic well-being, and development. But the right to health continues to elude hundreds of millions and with Covid-19, perhaps billions of people. Poverty remains...

This paper evaluates the effect of excise taxes and bans on smoking in public places on the exposure to tobacco smoke of non-smokers. We use a novel way of quantifying passive smoking: we use data on cotinine concentration - a metabolite of nicotine - measured in a large population of...