The effectiveness of different types of interventions to reduce low-value care has been
insufficiently summarized to allow for translation to practice. This article systematically …

Unsustainable growth in healthcare expenditure demands effective cost-containment
policies. We review policy effectiveness using total payer expenditure as primary outcome …

Describes the development of the Mental Health Inventory (MHI), a 38-item measure of
psychological distress and well-being, developed for use in general populations. The MHI …

The smearing estimate is proposed as a nonparametric estimate of the expected response
on the untransformed scale after fitting a linear regression model on a transformed scale …

In this paper we analyse the decision to prefer a health insurance with a deductible to one
with complete coverage. We focus on health, medical consumption, and on socio-economic …

In the most important health insurance study ever conducted researchers at the RAND
Corporation devised all experiment to address two key questions in health care financing …

We have tested alternative models of the demand for medical care using experimental data.
The estimated response of demand to insurance plan is sensitive to the model used. We …

THIS IS AN ESSAY about incentive struc-tures and information. Their joint effect is to give
the welfare state an efficiency function which is largely separate from redistributive aims. The …

This paper is an empirical examination of the determinants of aggregate health care
expenditure. The paper presents a systematic analysis of relationships across 19 OECD …

The use of a log transformed dependent variable has become commonplace in applied
microeconomic work. In some cases, such as in the analysis of wages, the log transform has …