In countries where health care is publicly provided and where equity considerations play an important role in policy … well-off in society. The present paper derives socially optimal co-payments in a simple model of health care where people …

Health care financing and funding are usually analyzed in isolation. This paper combines the corresponding strands of … of three modes of health care financing, namely, optimal income taxation, proportional income taxation, and insurance …. Considering a standard multi-task agency framework we show that optimal health care policies will generally differ across …

healthcare responded to pandemic intensity, suggesting that large health shocks do not necessarily lead to increased public … provision of health services. …

The past century witnessed a dramatic improvement in public health, the rise of modern medicine, and the transformation … medicine in contemporary society, little is known about how hospitals and modern medicine contributed to this health transition …

Using survey experiments in the United States and Germany with 12,000 participants, we examine perceptions of life … expectancy inequality between rich and poor people. The life expectancy of the poor is underestimated more than that of the rich …, leading to exaggerated perceptions of inequality in both countries. Receiving accurate information narrows concerns about this …