Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 220
Cover Image
The effect of audit regimes on applications for long-term care
Lindeboom, Maarten; van der Klaauw, Bas; Vriend, Sandra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
performance incentives, on behavior of care providers filing applications for providing long-term care services to patients. We … degree of control reduces the number of applications and that introducing performance incentives reduces this even further …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272714
Cover Image
Audit rates and compliance: A field experiment in long-term care
Lindeboom, Maarten; van der Klaauw, Bas; Vriend, Sandra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We provide evidence from a large-scale field experiment on the causal effects of audit rules on compliance in a market for long-term care. In this setting care should be provided quickly and, therefore, the gatekeeper introduced ex-post auditing. Our results do not show significant effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083445
Cover Image
Sinking, Swimming, or Learning to Swim in Medicare Part D
Ketcham, Jonathan D.; Lucarelli, Claudio; Miravete, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Under Medicare Part D, senior citizens choose prescription drug insurance offred by numerous private insurers. We examine non-poor enrollees' actions in 2006 and 2007 using panel data. Our sample reduced overspending by $298 on average, with gains by 81% of them. The greatest improvements were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322981
Cover Image
Comparing Subjective and Objective Measures of Health: Evidence from Hypertension for the Income/Health Gradient
Johnston, David W; Propper, Carol; Shields, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Economists rely heavily on self-reported measures of health status to examine the relationship between income and health. In this paper we directly compare survey responses to a self-reported measure of health that is commonly available in nationally-representative individual and household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656245
Cover Image
Distance to cannabis-shops and age of onset of cannabis use
Palali, Ali; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
In the Netherlands cannabis use is quasi-legalized. Small quantities of cannabis can be bought in cannabis-shops. We investigate how the distance to the nearest cannabis-shop affects the age of onset of cannabis use. We use a Mixed Proportional Hazard rate framework to take account of observable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084093
Cover Image
Cannabis use and suicidal ideation
Fergusson, David; Horwood, John; Ours, Jan C van; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Globally, suicide has emerged as the second leading cause of death among youth aged 10-24 years old. In order to better understand the causes of this phenomenon, we investigate the relationship between suicidal ideation and cannabis use. Our empirical analysis is based on a 30 year longitudinal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084327
Cover Image
Why do some people want to legalize cannabis use?
Grossman, Michael; Ours, Jan C van; Williams, Jenny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Preferences and attitudes to illicit drug policy held by individuals are likely to be an important influence in the development of illicit drug policy. Amongst the key factors impacting on an individual’s preferences over substance use policy are their beliefs about the costs and benefits of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854536
Cover Image
Incentives Versus Sorting in Tournaments: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Sonnemans, Joep; van … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
A vast body of empirical studies lends support to the incentive effects of rank-order tournaments. Evidence comes from experiments in laboratories and non-experimental studies exploiting sports or firm data. Selection of competitors across tournaments may bias these non-experimental studies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136509
Cover Image
Obesity and Price Sensitivity at the Supermarket
Gandal, Neil; Shabelansky, Anastasia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
correlated with obesity. Our main result is that, even after controlling for income levels and other factors, we find that high … 'price-sensitivity' for food products is associated with high obesity rates. We find that a woman who stated that prices were … that price was 'very important.' This suggests that the price effect is not trivial and obesity is a problem that is not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528537
Cover Image
Analyzing the Effects of Insuring Health Risks: On the Trade-off between Short Run Insurance Benefits vs. Long Run Incentive Costs
Cole, Harold; Kim, Soojin; Krueger, Dirk - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
incentives to lead healthier lives. The resulting negative effects on health outcomes in society more than offset the static …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084411