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Co-Payments for Prescription Drugs and the Demand for Doctor Visits - Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Winkelmann, Rainer - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2003

The German health care reform of 1997 provides a natural experiment for evaluating the price sensitivity of demand for … physicians’ services. As part of the reform, copayments for prescription drugs were increased by up to 200 percent. However …, certain groups of people were exempted from the increase, providing a natural control group against which the changed demand …

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Health Care Reform and the Number of Doctor Visits – An Econometric Analysis

Winkelmann, Rainer - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2002

The paper evaluates the German health care reform of 1997, using the individual number of doctor visits as outcome measure and data from the German Socio- Economic Panel for the years 1995-1999. A number of modified count data models allow to estimate the effect of the reform in different parts...

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Re-evaluating an Evaluation Study: The Case of the German Health Care Reform of 1997

Winkelmann, Rainer - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2003

This paper reports on a re-evaluation of the German health care reform of 1997. A previous evaluation found a limited effect of a 4.4 percent reduction of the number of doctor visits in a sample of pharmacy customers. The re-evaluation based on a representative household survey, the German...

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How Did the German Health Care Reform of 1997 Change the Distribution of the Demand for Health Services?

Winkelmann, Rainer - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2003

I consider the problem of evaluating the effect of a health care reform on the demand for doctor visits when the effect …

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Cost Sharing in Health Insurance: An Instrument for Risk Selection?

Becker, Karolin; Zweifel, Peter - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2005

select a policy with a high deductible. Compensation demanded for voluntarily accepting an increase in the annual deductible … also varies with socioeconomic characteristics and increases with the current level of deductible, as predicted by theory …

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Validity of Discrete-Choice Experiments - Evidence for Health Risk Reduction

Telser, Harry; Zweifel, Peter - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2003

There is growing interest in discrete-choice experiments (DCE) as a method to elicit consumers' preferences in the health care sector. Increasingly this method is used to determine willingness-to-pay (WTP) for health-related goods. However, its external validity in the health care domain has not...

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Measuring Willingness-To-Pay for Risk Reduction: An Application of Conjoint Analysis

Telser, Harry; Zweifel, Peter - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2000

This study applies conjoint analysis (CA) to estimate the marginal willingness-to-pay (MWTP) of elderly individuals for a reduction of the risk of fracture of the femur. The good in question are hypothetical hip protectors which lower the risk of a fracture by different amounts. Other attributes...

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Preferences for Health Insurance in Germany and the Netherlands – A Tale of Two Countries

Zweifel, Peter; Leukert, Karolin; Berner, Stephanie - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2010

This contribution contains an international comparison of preferences. Using two Discrete Choice Experiments (DCE), it measures willingness to pay for health insurance attributes in Germany and the Netherlands. Since the Dutch DCE was carried out right after the 2006 health reform, which made...

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Why the Linear Utility Function is a Risky Choice in Discrete-Choice Experiments

Sennhauser, Michele - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2009

This article assesses how the form of the utility function in discrete-choice experiments (DCEs) affects estimates of willingness-to-pay (WTP). The utility function is usually assumed to be linear in its attributes. Non-linearities, in the guise of interactions and higher-order terms, are...

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Age and Choice in Health Insurance: Evidence from Switzerland

Becker, Karolin; Zweifel, Peter - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2004

Elements of regulation inherent in most social health insurance systems are a uniform package of benefits and uniform cost sharing. Both elements risk to burden the population with a welfare loss if preferences differ. This suggests introducing more contracted choice; however, it is widely...

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