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Demand Patterns for Treatment Insurance in Norway

Aarbu, Karl Ove - CESifo - 2010

In Scandinavia, the provision of health care services has been, almost entirely, the responsibility of the public health care system. However, in the last five to seven years there has been remarkable growth in the private health care market. These health care services are obtained normally...

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Compulsory Schooling Reforms, Education and Mortality in Twentieth Century Europe

Gathmann, Christina; Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen - CESifo - 2012

example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large … mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we … quantify the mean mortality effect and explore its dispersion across gender, time and countries. We find that men benefit from …

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On the Policy Implications of Changing Longevity

Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Grégory - CESifo - 2012

Our societies are witnessing a steady increase in longevity. This demographic evolution is accompanied by some convergence across countries, whereas substantial longevity inequalities persist within nations. The goal of this paper is to survey some crucial implications of changing longevity on...

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You Owe Me

Malmendier, Ulrike M.; Schmidt, Klaus - CESifo - 2012

In many cultures and industries gifts are given in order to influence the recipient, often at the expense of a third party. Examples include business gifts of firms and lobbyists. In a series of experiments, we show that, even without incentive or informational effects, small gifts strongly...

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Heterogeneous Effects of a Nonlinear Price Schedule for Outpatient Care

Farbmacher, Helmut; Ihle, Peter; Schubert, Ingrid; … - CESifo - 2013

the new price schedule while a second group of individuals does not react. Post-estimation analyses reveal that the group …

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Patient Mobility, Health Care Quality and Welfare

Brekke, Kurt R.; Levaggi, Rosella; Siciliani, Luigi; … - CESifo - 2014

Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients’ right to EU-wide provider choice. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility on health care quality, health care financing and...

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Recession Depression: Mental Health Effects of the 2008 Stock Market Crash

McInerney, Melissa; Mellor, Jennifer M.; Nicholas, … - CESifo - 2013

How do sudden, large wealth losses affect mental health? Most prior studies of the causal effects of material well-being on health use identification strategies involving income increases; these studies as well as prior research on stock market accumulations may not inform this question if the...

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Average-cost Pricing and Dynamic Selection Incentives in the Hospital Sector

Kifmann, Mathias; Siciliani, Luigi - CESifo - 2014

prospective payment system of the DRG type. Given that prices typically reflect past average costs, we use a discrete-time dynamic …

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A Simple Model of Health Insurance Competition

Kemnitz, Alexander - CESifo - 2010

This paper investigates competition between health insurance companies under different financing regulations. We consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health contributions) and by fees (health premia). We find that...

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Margins and Market Shares: Pharmacy Incentives for Generic Substitution

Brekke, Kurt R.; Holmås, Tor Helge; Straume, Odd Rune - CESifo - 2012

We study the impact of product margins on pharmacies’ incentive to promote generics instead of brand-names. First, we construct a theoretical model where pharmacies can persuade patients with a brand-name prescription to purchase a generic version instead. We show that pharmacies’...

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