efficiency of health centres in Finland between 1990 and 2003. To address potential non-random or endogenous treatment assignment … insignificant on the productive efficiency of health centres. … contrast to earlier studies, this paper approaches the economies of scale issue by analysing the break-ups of municipal health …

comparison effect, decrease subsequent demand. This tension is particularly important for the distribution of health products in … Uganda in which three health products differing in their scope for learning were initially offered either for free or for …

to U.S. health utilization data for the elderly from the National Medical Expenditure Survey …

comparison effect, decrease subsequent demand. This tension is particularly important for the distribution of health products in … Uganda in which three health products differing in their scope for learning were initially offered either for free or for …

This paper analyses the demand for private health care by Spanish households using a micro budget survey. The … private health care, how often to do so and how much to spend each time and also the effects of unobserved heterogeneity …. Since the theoretical framework corresponds to the Grossman model of health investment, the results also provide a test of …

This paper analyses the demand for private health care by Spanish households using a micro budget survey. The … private health care, how often to do so and how much to spend each time and also the effects of unobserved heterogeneity …. Since the theoretical framework corresponds to the Grossman model of health investment, the results also provide a test of …

We test a door-to-door marketing intervention aimed to increase use of a tar- geted health product, in our setting …

We study a micro-finance program that provides compulsory health insurance to its borrowers and their spouses. We find … more likely to use the health insurance acquired through his wife's loan than is a woman (through her husband's loan … that the non-borrowing spouses are less likely to file insurance claims than those who are borrowing. Further, a man is …

results suggest that informing plan choosers about high-deductible plans’ health access provisions may affect choice more …

Taxes on housing consumption have attractive features. They can enhance overall efficiency, function as automatic …