In order to improve financial access to complementary health insurance (CHI) in France, a CHI voucher program, called Aide Complémentaire Santé (ACS) was introduced in 2005. Four years later, the program covered only 18% of the eligible population. Two main hypotheses are put forward to...

Medical state assistance ('Aide Médicale d’État,') is a public health insurance programme that allows undocumented immigrants with limited financial resources to access health care services for free. The objective of medical state assistance is to enable undocumented immigrants to visit...

We investigate the short- and long-term effects of retirement on loneliness using panel data from the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe. To estimate causal effects, we exploit differences in retirement eligibility rules across and within countries and use retirement thresholds in...

Using the economic complexity methodology on data for disease prevalence in 195 countries during the period of 1990-2016, we propose two new metrics for quantifying the relatedness between diseases, or the ‘disease space’ of countries. With these metrics, we analyze the geography of diseases...

Using the economic complexity methodology on data for disease prevalence in 195 countries during the period of 1990-2016, we propose two new metrics for quantifying the relatedness between diseases, or the 'disease space' of countries. With these metrics, we analyze the geography of diseases and...

Using the economic complexity methodology on data for disease prevalence in 195 countries during the period of 1990-2016, we propose two new metrics for quantifying the relatedness between diseases, or the 'disease space' of countries. With these metrics, we analyze the geography of diseases and...

This report provides a methodological guidance on cost-effectiveness analysis in the view of future evaluations of the EU interventions currently funded under the Common Financial Framework of the food chain area (CFF, Regulation (EU) No 652/2014). The report was commissioned by DG SANTE. Under...