Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/86889 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 08-084/3
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
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
D82
G22
C33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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