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 …

expenditures using individual-level data from the 2006-2018 waves of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) merged with PDP market …

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

In February 2009 the U.S. Congress unexpectedly passed the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical … Health Act (HITECH). HITECH provides up to $27 billion to promote adoption and appropriate use of Electronic Medical Records …

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 …