Societies prohibit many transactions considered morally repugnant, although potentially efficiency-enhancing. We … conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors …

To equalize differences in health plan premiums due to differences in risk pools, the German legislature introduced a …, consumers gained the freedom to choose among hundreds of existing health plans, across employers and state-borders. This paper … impact on market price dispersion. Moreover, it (b) characterizes health plan switchers and investigates their annual and …

We investigate whether people enrolled into voluntary health insurance (VHI) substitute public consumption with private … provision of private goods ; health insurance ; bivariate count data model ; endogenous multinomial treatment ; simultaneous … the case of Italy, where a mixed insurance system is in place. To this purpose, we specify a joint model for public and …

Egyptian HIECS Survey, we develop a quantile regression model with an innovative variable selection approach via Adaptive Lasso … policy implications regarding residential energy efficiency and carbon emissions reduction in Egypt. …

partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is … small. We cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance against temporary shocks. Another interpretation of our findings is … that there is very little insurance available, but the fact that skill is a non-separable function of parental investments …

We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children's labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks which …

In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set … of behaviours which are thought to influence health and are generally considered to invoke a substantial degree of free … choice. The main underlying assumption is that individuals are co-producers of their own health. We first present a …