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The Labor-Supply Effects of Universal Health Coverage: What Can We Learn form Individuals with Coverage Through Their Spouses?

Wellington, A.J.; Codd-Clark, D. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1995

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Dynamics of health insurance ownership in Vietnam, 2004 – 06

Nguyen, Trong-Ha; Leung, Suiwah - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2010

Vietnam is undertaking health financing reform in an attempt to achieve universal health insurance coverage by 2014. Changes in health insurance policies have doubled the overall coverage between 2004 and 2006. However, close examination of Vietnam Living Standard Surveys during this period...

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Selective contracting and foreclosure in health care markets

Bijlsma, Michiel; Boone, Jan; Zwart, Gijsbert - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We analyze exclusive contracts between health care providers and insurers in a model where some consumers choose to stay uninsured. In case of a monopoly insurer, exclusion of a provider changes the distribution of consumers who choose not to insure. Although the foreclosed care provider remains...

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Separating Selection and Incentive Effects in Health Insurance

Gardiol, Lucien; Geoffard, Pierre-Yves; Grandchamp, Chantal - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper provides an analysis of the health insurance and health care consumption. A structural microeconomic model of joint demand for health insurance and health care is developed and estimated using full maximum likelihood method using Swiss insurance claims data for over 60,000 adult...

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Health Insurance without Single Crossing: why healthy people have high coverage

Boone, Jan; Schottmüller, Christoph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Standard insurance models predict that people with high (health) risks have high insurance coverage. It is empirically documented that people with high income have lower health risks and are better insured. We show that income differences between risk types lead to a violation of single crossing...

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Competition leverage: how the demand side affects optimal risk adjustment

Bijlsma, Michiel; Boone, Jan; Zwart, Gijsbert - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We study optimal risk adjustment in imperfectly competitive health insurance markets when high-risk consumers are less likely to switch insurer than low-risk consumers. First, we find that insurers still have an incentive to select even if risk adjustment perfectly corrects for cost differences...

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Health insurance competition: the effect of group contracts

Boone, Jan; Douven, Rudy; Droge, Carline; Mosca, Ilaria - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

In countries like the US and the Netherlands health insurance is provided by private firms. These private firms can offer both individual and group contracts. The strategic and welfare implications of such group contracts are not well understood. Using a Dutch data set of about 700 group health...

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Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

increasingly important, emerging as a widely used step on the path to marriage. Out-of-wedlock fertility has also risen, consistent …We document key facts about marriage and divorce, comparing trends through the past 150 years and outcomes across … quarter century. Marriage rates have also been falling, but more strikingly, the importance of marriage at different points in …

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A Dynamic Analysis of the Demand for Health Insurance and Health Care

Bolhaar, Jonneke; Lindeboom, Maarten; van der Klaauw, Bas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We investigate the presence of moral hazard and advantageous or 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...

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Competition and Quality in Regulated Markets: a Differential-Game Approach

Brekke, Kurt Richard; Cellini, Roberto; Siciliani, Luigi; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public utilities) taking a differential game approach, in which quality is a stock variable. Using a Hotelling framework, we derive the open-loop solution (providers commit to an...

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