This paper analyzes how markets for old-age care respond to the aging of populations. We consider how the biological forces, which govern the stocks of frail and health persons in a population, interact with economic forces, which govern the demand for and supply of care. We argue that aging...

This paper focuses on three key choices a young woman faces that can result in a live birth: (1) whether to have sex or not; (2) if so, whether to contracept or not; and (3) if she becomes pregnant, whether to have an abortion or not. This paper analyzes these three conditional choices...

In the past, the individual using medical care was generally referred to as the "patient", with this word's connotations of an individual who was passive, forbearing and accepting. The emerging view is to look at the individual using medical care as a consumer, with this word's very different...

Increased concentration in the hospital industry has been a focus of recent antitrust review of the current wave of hospital mergers. As argued by Demsetz, the potential danger that increased concentration imposes on economic efficiency in any industry turns upon whether the change in...

In this paper, we estimate the behavioral responses by individuals to the type of information-intervention of public immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testiong program would typify.

Human development is defined as the improvement of the human condition so that people live longer, healthier and fuller lives. In the development of the concept of HD under the leadership of Mahbub ul Haq, some aspects of HD were related to people's physical well-being, such as health, nutrition...

This paper examines wealth data in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS).

Using data from the New Haven EPESE, we examine the relationship between family structure and the risk of first nursing home admission.

The paper uses cross-country regression analysis to assess health effects of structural adjustment reforms in developing countries over the period 1980-93, controlling for effectiveness in their implementation.