Understanding the effects of changes in health insurance policies on the demand for health
care services is an important and timely topic. As the Military Health System MHS has …

We use a regression framework and nationally representative data to compute aggregate
overweight-and obesity-attributable medical spending for the United States and for select …

This new edition examines the economics of health care systems in a non-technical manner.
It is written in a highly accessible manner for economists and non-economists alike. It is very …

We develop a specification and estimation framework for a class of nonlinear, non‐normal
microeconometric models of treatment and outcome with selection. A latent factor structure is …

It is well known that adverse selection causes distortions in contracts in markets with
asymmetric information. Taxing inefficient contracts and subsidizing the efficient ones can …

This report reviews the health economic research conducted at RAND and elsewhere in an
effort to summarize what this research has to say about the elasticity of demand for health …

Objectives. We estimated health care expenditures associated with overweight and obesity
and examined the influence of age, race, and gender. Methods. Using 1998 Medical …

This article extends the standard two-part model for predicting health care expenditures to
the case where multiple events may occur within a one-year period. The first part of the …

The effect of socioeconomic status on the likelihood that an individual enters a period of
poor health is examined using an Accelerated Failure Time methodology. This study …

This paper introduces a theory of network incentives in managed health care. Participation
in the plan's network confers an economic benefit on providers; in exchange, the plan …