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The Changing Role of Government in Financing Health Care : An International Perspective
Stabile, Mark - 2013
This paper explores the changing role of government involvement in health care financing policy outside the United States. It provides a review of the economics literature in this area to understand the implications of recent policy changes on efficiency, costs and quality. Our review reveals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459221
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Battles Among Licensed Occupations : Analyzing Government Regulations on Labor Market Outcomes for Dentists and Hygienists
Kleiner, Morris M. - 2010
who can do the tasks that are required for the consumer. In this study, we examine dentists and dental hygienists, who are … hygienists' activities by dentists. Since there are elements of monopsony in the market we examine, we use the model as a guide … that dentists in those states have lower earnings and slower employment growth. Several sensitivity and falsification tests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462097
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Entry, Exit, and the Determinants of Market Structure
Dunne, Timothy - 2009
structure and long-run firm values for two U.S. service industries, dentists and chiropractors. We find that entry costs faced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463337
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Equilibrium effects of public goods : The impact of community water fluoridation on dentists
Ho, Katherine - 2009
within-county dentists relative to physicians in the years surrounding the change in fluoridation status. We find a …-market dental supply, suggesting that dentists responded to the demand shock by moving from fluoridated areas to close-by markets …. Further analysis suggests that some dentists may have retrained as specialists rather than moving geographically. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463594
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The sources of cost difference in health insurance plans : a decomposition analysis
Eichner, Matthew (contributor);  … - 1999 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001511637
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The Medical Treatment of Depression, 1991-1996 : Productive Inefficiency, Expected Outcome Variations, and Price Indexes
Berndt, Ernst R. - 2000
We examine the price of treating episodes of acute phase major depression over the 1991-1996 time period. We combine data from a large retrospective medical claims data base (MarketScanTM, from the MedStat Group) with clinical literature and expert clinical opinion elicited from a two-state...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470934
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Hospital Ownership and Public Medical Spending
Duggan, Mark - 2000
The hospital market is served by firms that are private for-profit, private not-for-profit, and government-owned and operated. I use a plausibly exogenous change in hospital financing that was intended to improve medical care for the poor to test three theories of organizational behavior. My...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470961
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The Economic Impacts of the Tobacco Settlement
Cutler, David M. - 2000
Recent litigation against major tobacco companies culminated in a Master Settlement Agreement' (MSA) under which the participating companies agreed to compensate most states for Medicaid expenses. We outline the terms of the settlement and analyze whether it was a move toward economic efficiency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470990
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How Good a Deal Was the Tobacco Settlement? : Assessing Payments to Massachusetts
Cutler, David M. - 2000
We estimate the increment in Massachusetts Medicaid program costs attributable to smoking from December 20, 1991, to 1998. We describe how our methods improve upon earlier estimates of analogous costs at the national level. Current costs to the Massachusetts Medicaid program approximate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471003
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Does Public Insurance Improve the Efficiency of Medical Care? Medicaid Expansions and Child Hospitalizations
Dafny, Leemore - 2000
One of the benefits commonly claimed for expanded public health insurance is improved efficiency of medical care delivery, but this claim has little rigorous empirical support. We provide such support by assessing the impact of the Medicaid expansions over the 1983-1996 period on the incidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471220