Health economists typically use agency theory to predict how physicians respond to various policy schemes. Empirical studies show that many schemes lead to unintended responses, indicating that current theoretical models fail to fully explain physicians’ behaviour. Drawing on key lessons from...

Studies find substantial variation in healthcare providers’ treatment behaviour and responses to policies. One potential explanation may be differences in their motivation. However, healthcare providers’ motivation remains an understudied area. This study maps general practitioners’...

This paper develops an extension of the class of finite mixture models for longitudinal count data to the bivariate case by using a trivariate reduction technique and a hidden Markov chain approach. The model allows for disentangling unobservable time-varying heterogeneity from the dynamic...

It is standard practice in the literature to assume that an individual’s marginal utility of consumption is independent of health status. If this assumption is not met, it could have important implications for welfare economic analyses. The aim of this paper is to provide new, more...

The onset of a major illness is one of the most sizeable and unpredictable shocks an individual may experience and can have devastating effects not only on the individual but the entire household, including children. If a parental health shock reduces investments in children, it may have...

Objectives: This study investigates cost and quality implications of pushing regular monitoring of moderateseverity type 2 diabetes (T2D) patients away from specialized hospital clinics into general practice (GP). Methods: 152,630 hospital- and 21,361 GP-monitored T2D patients with moderate...

Objectives: To study and compare the longitudinal and cross-sectional relationship between nurse hours perpatient day and patient outcomes (30‐day mortality and length of stay [LOS]). Data source: Retrospective administrative register data (2015-2017) with all hospital admissions, LOS,...