There is much debate about the effects of pharmaceutical direct to consumer advertising (DTCA) on health care use. In …

Recent research has documented a link between consumer risk preferences over health and the willingness to pay (WTP …) for medical technologies. However, the absence of empirical health risk preference estimates so far limits the … individual risk preference parameters over health-related quality of life (HRQoL) that shed light on health risk attitudes and …

expressing health care-seeking behavior as a function of economic and behavioral fundamentals and highlighting the role of trust …. We report several findings. First, we document a strong association between higher levels of trust in the health care … scenarios, from routine check-ups to vaccinations. Second, the impact of trust on health care utilization is similar in …

counties. Nonetheless, there are no consistent effects of obstetric unit closure on maternal and infant health in the full … is a more consistent pattern of negative effects of closure on infant health. Importantly, the adoption of scope … implications for narrowing racial/ethnic disparities in health in response to obstetric unit closures …

correcting for selection bias and keeping the next-best alternatives as measured at the time of application fixed. We find that …

Insurance product choice is a central feature of health insurance markets in the United States, yet there is ongoing … document large choice inconsistencies, with the typical employee foregoing savings of more than $600 in their insurance plan …

This paper outlines changes that have been made in the 2019 version of the Health Equity and Financial Protection … refinements to the estimation of out-of-pocket expenditures. On the health equity side, the 2019 database includes 198 more data …

This paper documents inequality in health and education outcomes by constructing an index of human capital …

how it affects women's health, reproductive outcomes, children's health, and children's education. The analysis uses a …-conflicting reports of intrahousehold decision making. It finds that women's power substantially matters for health and various family and … reproductive outcomes. Women taking power is also better for children's outcomes, in particular for girls' health, but it is worse …

the World Health Organization reference population. The results of multiple probit regression models indicate a 6 percent …