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Township hospitals, which are an important link of the Chinese rural healthcare system, were affected by the successive socio-economic reforms since the 1980s. As a consequence, their utilization declined. From longitudinal data covering nine years (2000-2008) and 24 township hospitals randomly...
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This paper presents a general framework for modeling the impact of insurance on healthcare demand extending some of the … assumption turns out to be key in understanding participation in the insurance and healthcare markets. The demands for insurance … relaxation of this assumption. First, only the presence of an insurance market can produce healthcare consumption at higher …
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longitudinal survey to analyze how the introduction of a public insurance system has contributed to the change. This program is … channels of influence of the insurance: the insurance effect of the coverage and a general equilibrium effect on all residents … in the insurance-adopting counties. The empirical findings include, first, a positive extensive margin: individuals feel …
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of joint demand for health insurance and health care is developed and estimated using full maximum likelihood method …This paper provides an analysis of the health insurance and health care consumption. A structural microeconomic model … using Swiss insurance claims data for over 60 000 adult individuals. The estimation strategy relies on the institutional …
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model, and control for the non-exogeneity of health insurance. The empirical findings support the hypothesis of a return to …
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effect of the insurance system (NCMS) on the healthcare demand, other factors explaining the healthcare demand have not … insurance effect. If the income level and insurance enrollment plays a major role on the healthcare demand, we shed light on the … organisation has been weakened. In a 1991-2006 database, a decrease in the healthcare demand is observed. If many papers study the …
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The main objective of this study is to analyse the effect of the professional environment on sick leaves. The professional context is approximated by the sector of activity. The database used - Hygie (2005-2008) - allows taking individual heterogeneity into account thanks to the longitudinal...
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Using a model of bivariate decision under risk, we analyse the health insurance demand when there are two sources of … show that the determinants of the demand for health insurance are not only the correlation between the health and …
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This paper estimates the impact of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) on household saving across income quartiles in rural China. We use data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey for the 2006 wave and we run an ordinary least squares regression. We control for the endogeneity of...
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there is now a worldwide consensus that health insurance plans should cover the whole population to attain the highest … standard of health, a question still remains unsolved. What kind of health insurance coverage is the most likely to attain this … population, while sometimes very different health insurance models are implemented today in these countries. This paper discusses …
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