adverse selection in a market for supplementary health insurance. For this we specify and estimate dynamic models for health … insurance decisions and health care utilization. Estimates of the health care utilization models indicate that moral hazard is … not important. Furthermore, we find strong evidence for advantageous selection, largely driven by heterogeneity in …

insurance contracts. We consider the recent health insurance reform in The Netherlands, where a private-public mix of insurance … main features of the Dutch health insurance system. This model provides us with a number of hypotheses, which we test using …-014-9244-6">'De Economist'</A>, 2015, 163, 25-60. This paper looks into the search behavior of consumers in the market for health …

presence of selection effects and treatment heterogeneity. As an example we present an estimate of the TPE for a rural water …

insurance in rural communities usually requires a structural model of household behavior under risk. One of the few empirical … would not benefit from the introduction of formal weather insurance. In this paper we investigate how models such as theirs … conclusion that insurance would not be welfare improving. …

. Se1f-assessed health measures are usually at hand in empiricalanalyses and research indicates that these may be affected … by endogenous, state dependent, reporting behaviour. Furthermore, even if an objective health measure is used, it is not … likely to be strictly exogenous to labour market status or labour income. Health and labour market variables are …

This discussion paper led to a publication in the <I>Journal of Health Economics</I> (2009). Vol. 28, pages 109-131.<P …> This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we explore … one year had little effect on the health of their offspring. Schooling did however improve economic opportunities by …

, 639–664.<P> Reliance on self-rated health to proxy medical need can bias estimation of education-related inequity in … health care utilisation. We correct this bias both by instrumenting self-rated health with objective health indicators and by … purging self-rated health of reporting heterogeneity identified from health vignettes. Using data on elderly Europeans, we …

health, work disability, life satisfaction, political efficacy, etc. with the aim of improving interpersonal comparability of … valid under a less stringent assumption. We apply these tests to cognitive functioning and mobility related health problems … using data from the English Longitudinal Survey of Ageing. Response consistency is rejected for both health domains …