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Health Care Reform and the Number of Doctor Visits - An Econometric Analysis
Winkelmann, Rainer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
The paper evaluates the German health care reform of 1997, using the individual number of doctor visits as outcome measure. A new econometric model, the Probit-Poisson-log-normal model with correlated errors, describes the data better than existing count data models. Moreover, it has an...
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Health Care Cost Containment Measures
Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
were introduced in Germany in 1997 to reduce moral hazard and public health expenditures in the market for convalescent …
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The Design of Insurance Coverage for Medical Products under Imperfect Competition
Bardey, David; Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, Jean-Marie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper studies the design of health insurance with ex post moral hazard, when there is imperfect competition in the market for the medical product. Various scenarios, such as monopoly pricing, price negotiation or horizontal differentiation are considered. The insurance contract specifies...
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Saving Lives at Birth: The Impact of Home Births on Infant Outcomes
Daysal, N. Meltem; Trandafir, Mircea; van Ewijk, Reyn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
from a mother's residence to the closest hospital. We find that giving birth in a hospital leads to substantial reductions …
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Returns to Childbirth Technologies: Evidence from Preterm Births
Daysal, N. Meltem; Trandafir, Mircea; van Ewijk, Reyn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We investigate the impact of obstetrician supervision, as opposed to midwife supervision, on the short-term health of low-risk newborns. We exploit a unique policy rule in the Netherlands that creates a large discontinuity in the probability of a low-risk birth being attended by an obstetrician...
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Learning-by-Doing in a Highly Skilled Profession When Stakes Are High: Evidence from Advanced Cancer Surgery
Avdic, Daniel; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
or by other changes at the hospital level. …
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The Impact of Colombia's Pension and Health Insurance Systems on Informality
Calderón-Mejía, Valentina; Marinescu, Ioana E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Social protection systems in developing countries are typically composed of a bundle of benefits, the major ones being health insurance and pensions. Benefit bundling may increase informality and decrease welfare. Indeed, if some of the benefits are valued at substantially less than their cost,...
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Do Market Incentives in the Hospital Industry Affect Subjective Health Perceptions? Evidence from the Italian PPS-DRG Reform
Cappellari, Lorenzo; De Paoli, Anna; Turati, Gilberto - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
in hospitalization and day hospital treatments, coupled with a clear decrease in the access to emergency services …
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In Absolute or Relative Terms? How Framing Prices Affects the Consumer Price Sensitivity of Health Plan Choice
Schmitz, Hendrik; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper provides field evidence on (a) how price framing affects consumers' decision to switch health insurance plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be influenced by policymakers through simple regulatory efforts. In 2009, in order to foster competition...
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Does Uninsurance Affect the Health Outcomes of the Insured? Evidence from Heart Attack Patients in California
Daysal, N. Meltem - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
– the in-hospital mortality rate of insured heart attack patients. I employ panel data models using patient discharge and … hospital financial data from California (1999-2006). My results indicate that uninsured patients have an economically … spillover effects is increased hospital uncompensated care costs. Although data limitations constrain my capacity to check how …
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