Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35281 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3698
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We investigate the presence of moral hazard and advantageous or adverse selection in a market for supplementary health insurance. For this we specify and estimate dynamic models for health insurance decisions and health care utilization. Estimates of the health care utilization models indicate that moral hazard is not important. Furthermore, we find strong evidence for advantageous selection, largely driven by heterogeneity in education, income and health preferences. Finally, we show that ignoring dynamics and unobserved fixed effects changes the results dramatically.
Subjects: 
Supplementary private health insurance
health care utilization
advantageous selection
moral hazard
panel data
JEL: 
I11
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
324.38 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.