The recent paper by Garcia-Gomez et al. (2014) in this journal is part of a rapidly growing industry aiming to quantify, and hence give some policy teeth to, the concept of inequality of opportunity. The...
The authors welcome the comments of Pedro Rosa Dias and Erik Schokkaert on our Editorial as a means of stimulating further debate on the usefulness of estimates of inequality of opportunity, especially...
Paying for performance provides financial rewards to medical care providers for improvements in performance measured by utilization and quality of care indicators. In 2006, Rwanda began a pay for performance...
Using primary data from Laos, the authors compare a broad range of different types of shocks in terms of their incidence, distribution between the poor and better off, idiosyncrasy, costs, coping responses...
In this paper, the authors take a bibliometric tour of the last forty years of health economics using bibliographic metadata from EconLit supplemented by citation data from Google scholar and the topical...
Authors of benefit-incidence analyses (BIA) have to impute subsidies using assumptions about the relationship between unobserved subsidies “captured” by the household and what can be observed at the household...
This paper discusses the role of economic appraisal in the formulation of health sector policy in less developed countries (LDCs). Specifically, it focuses on the application of economic analysis to public...