comparison effect, decrease subsequent demand. This tension is particularly important for the distribution of health products in … Northern Uganda in which three health products differing in their scope for learning were initially offered either for free or …

This paper empirically assesses the relative role of health plan prices, service quality and optional benefits in the … decision to choose a health plan. We link representative German SOEP panel data from 2007 to 2010 to (i) health plan service … quality indicators, (ii) measures of voluntary benefit provision on top of federally mandated benefits, and (iii) health plan …

The impacts of choice in public services are controversial. We exploit a reform in the English National Health Service …

The highly regarded Austrian health system delivers good quality and easily accessible services, but is costly. Its … competition opportunities are de facto limited in most health markets. The system operates therefore on a supply-driven basis, and … of good health outcomes and suffer important differences between social groups, raising risks for the future. This …

raise health care spending efficiency.<P>Systèmes de santé : efficacité et institutions<BR>Ce document présente un ensemble …This paper presents a set of indicators to assess health care system performance. It also presents new comparative data … on health care policies and institutions for OECD countries. This set of indicators allows the empirical characterisation …

This paper assesses the potential to raise public spending efficiency in the primary and secondary education sector …