Medicare and Social Security in determining job exit rates at age 65. Of central importance is whether individuals value health … medical expenses. To address this problem the model accounts explicitly for the effects of health cost volatility and health … individuals can self-insure against health cost shocks. Self-insurance potentially reduces an individual's valuation of health …

This paper asserts that America's health care system is broken and cannot be repaired with timid half-measures. It …: Each is necessary to make the other possible. It further states that if we do not make health care more affordable and our … of millions of uninsured impairs the efficiency we need to make health care and insurance affordable for all. Thus …

-developed countries (LDCs) have had to cut back social spending, including spending on government health programs. As a result, these … countries have been forced to explore alternative means fo financing health services, including greater recovery of costs in the … government health sector via user fees. …

Mental health disorders in adolescence are pervasive, often carry into adulthood, and appear to be inversely associated …

Survey data indicate that different dimensions of health affect the wages of men and women in urban Brazil. Height has …

The paper asserts that project designs and benefit valuation in the health sector are much more complex than in other … of health sector projects and then presents possible approaches pertaining to demand analysis, analysis of alternative …