The contraction in health care consumption at the start of the pandemic provides insight into central economic … questions of waste and productivity in the U.S. health care system. Using linked mortality and Electronic Medical Records, we …-year mortality by 29.7 deaths per 10,000 among compliers, implying that a 10% increase in health care appointments reduces mortality …

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 …

There is substantial evidence that cost-sharing in medical care constrains total health spending. However, there is … relatively little (and unclear) evidence on its health effects, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. This paper re …-evaluates the link between outpatient cost-sharing and health, studying Colombia's entire formal sector workforce observed monthly …

to the health sector …

We examine how health insurance expansions affect the entry and location decisions of health care clinics. Exploiting …, 1963), our results demonstrate that whether health insurance expansions cause the supply side to expand or contract further … county-level changes in insurance coverage following the Affordable Care Act and 1,721 retail clinic entries and exits, we …

Governments in many low- and middle-income countries are developing health insurance products as a complement to tax …. First, health insurance would boost fiscal revenues for health care, as post-treatment out-of-pocket payments to providers … would be replaced by pre-treatment insurance premia to health ministries. Second, increased patient choice and carefully …