We investigate how, in temporary economic hardship, agents change their consumption of health services, and how this depends on whether the service is universally free-of-charge visits to GP's or privately co-financed dental care. We find that own expenditures for dental care decrease. The...

The paper surveys the economics literature on equity in health care financing and delivery. The focus is, for the most part, on empirical work, especially that involving international and temporal comparisons. There is, however, some discussion of the concept and definition of equity. The...

The JPMorgan Chase Institute set out to understand families' out-of-pocket healthcare expenditures and the financial burden they imposed on families over time. Building off a de-identified sample of 4.7 million families with Chase checking accounts, we extended the JPMorgan Chase Institute...

How can non-profit organizations improve their governance to increase their social impact? This study examines the effectiveness of a bundle of governance mechanisms -- consisting of social performance-based incentives combined with auditing and feedback -- in the context of a randomized...