fin d’accroître le nombre de personnes ayant un médecin de famille – nombre qui est relativement faible au Québec – le ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux a mis en place, en 2008, les guichets d’accès pour la clientèle orpheline (GACO). La politique GACO avait pour...

This is an evaluation of the health system changes in Montreal, Quebec, in the late 1990s. We have estimated their effects for surgical patients with conditions amenable to day surgery. We contrasted the experiences of a cohort of such patients seen in 1996, at the beginning of the changes, with...

It is known how the different forms of reinsurance must perform in theory but in practical use, because of the multitude of parameters involved, the complexity is such that it is impossible to identify whether a contract is or is not optimal. The interactions between an insurer's retention...

We experimentally measure the ability of subjects to coordinate on issues related to the H1N1 inuenza virus before and after an outbreak. Our instrument consists of an H1N1 survey converted into a coordination game. We show that the degree of coordination on beliefs about (1) H1N1 prevention,...

This paper examines the impact of the introduction of the Medicaid program on labor supply decisions among single women in the late 1960s and early 1970s. I use a differences-in-differences-in-differences methodology to estimate the effect of Medicaid on eligible women's labor force...

The proportion of large employers offering retiree health insurance in the U.S. has declined by half in the past 20 years. This paper examines the potential implications of this change by estimating the effects of a retiree health insurance (RHI) offer on a comprehensive set of labor, health and...