If the marginal utility of consumption depends on health status, this will affect the economic analysis of a number of … central problems in public finance, including the optimal structure of health insurance and optimal life cycle savings. In … this paper, we describe the promises and challenges of various approaches to estimating the effect of health on the …

If the marginal utility of consumption depends on health status, this will affect the economic analysis of a number of … central problems in public finance, including the optimal structure of health insurance and optimal life cycle savings. In … this paper, we describe the promises and challenges of various approaches to estimating the effect of health on the …

If the marginal utility of consumption depends on health status, this will affect the economic analysis of a number of … central problems in public finance, including the optimal structure of health insurance and optimal life cycle savings. In … this paper, we describe the promises and challenges of various approaches to estimating the effect of health on the …

a high-deductible health plan with a health savings account (HSA) for all employees. This study represents one of the … longest observation periods reported with a full-replacement consumer-directed health plan (CDHP), and it is one of the few … studies with a matched control group. In the first year of the HSA, the employer’s aggregate health care spending was reduced …

This paper reports use of health care services related to health care quality over five years among over 18 …,000 individuals from a single large employer in the Midwestern United States that adopted an HSA-eligible health plan for all … studies with a matched control group. The introduction of the HSA-eligible health plan had a negative impact on office visits …

Objective: To compare medical care costs and utilization in a consumer directed health plan (CDHP) to other health … early evaluation of CDHP expenditure and utilization reveals that the new health plan is a viable alternative to existing … health plan designs. Enrollees in the CDHP have lower total expenditures than PPO enrollees, but higher utilization of …

(as a proxy of SWB) have identified strong relations with income, labour market status and health state. In this … literature review we try to be acquainted with and analyse the dynamic effect of income, health state (ill-being) and labour … others’) really does matter, and subjective health state (ill-being) and non-employment status are strongly and negatively …