We provide evidence that the quality of health care affects health outcomes, exploiting the substantial variability in the quality of the Italian public health service. The data are drawn from the 2001 Survey of Health, Aging and Wealth, providing detailed information on health status, and...

The literature on durable consumption is still small by comparison with that on non-durable consumption, but the last few years have seen a number of both theoretical and empirical studies. This paper surveys these recent contributions and tries to highlight the main advances and the open issues...