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The Best Business Schools: A Market Based Approach

Tracy, Joseph; Waldfogel, Joel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1994

new MBAs. We adjust programs' salaries for the quality of entering students in an attempt to distinguish value added from … the quality of incoming students. We then rank programs according to value added. Our results are rather surprising. While … rankings since they do not recruit the very top students. We explore the determinants of our value added and student quality …

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The Effect of Patient Cost Sharing on Utilization, Health, and Risk Protection

Shigeoka, Hitoshi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper exploits a sharp reduction in patient cost sharing at age 70 in Japan, using a regression discontinuity design to examine its effect on utilization, health, and financial risk arising from out-of-pocket expenditures. Due to the national policy, cost sharing is 60-80 percent lower at...

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Efficiency versus Equity in the Allocation of Medical Specialty Training Positions in Spain: A Health Policy Simulation Based on a Discrete Choice Model

Harris, Jeffrey E.; López-Valcárcel, Beatriz G.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Background. In Spain's "MIR" system of allocating residency training positions, medical school graduates are ranked according to their performance on a national exam and then sequentially choose from the remaining available training slots. We studied how changes in the MIR system might address...

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To Charge or Not to Charge: Evidence from a Health Products Experiment in Uganda

Karlan, Dean; Fischer, Greg; McConnell, Margaret; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

In a field experiment in Uganda, we find that demand after a free distribution of three health products is lower than after a sale distribution. This contrasts with work on insecticide-treated bed nets, highlighting the importance of product characteristics in determining pricing policy. We put...

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Cost Effectiveness Analysis and the Design of Cost-Sharing in Insurance: Solving a Puzzle

Pauly, Mark - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

The conventional model for the use of cost effectiveness analysis for health programs involves determining whether the cost per unit of effectiveness of the program is better than some socially determined maximum acceptable cost per unit of effectiveness. If a program is better, the policy...

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Effects of Pharmaceutical Promotion: A Review and Assessment

Dave, Dhaval M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This review discusses the role of consumer-directed and physician-directed promotion in the pharmaceutical market, based on the classic conceptual framework of whether such promotion is "persuasive" and/or "informative". Implications for public health and welfare partly depend on whether, and to...

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Specialty drug prices and utilization after loss of U.S. patent exclusivity, 2001-2007

Conti, Rena M.; Berndt, Ernst R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We examine the impact of loss of U.S. patent exclusivity (LOE) on the prices and utilization of specialty drugs between 2001 and 2007. We limit our empirical cohort to drugs commonly used to treat cancer and base our analyses on nationally representative data from IMS Health. We begin by...

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The Market Impacts of Pharmaceutical Product Patents in Developing Countries: Evidence from India

Duggan, Mark; Garthwaite, Craig; Goyal, Aparajita - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

In 2005, as the result of a World Trade Organization mandate, India began to implement product patents for pharmaceuticals that were compliant with the 1995 Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). We combine pharmaceutical product sales data for India with a newly gathered...

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Health Care in a Multipayer System: The Effects of Health Care Service Demand among Adults under 65 on Utilization and Outcomes in Medicare

Glied, Sherry A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Doctors and hospitals in the United States serve patients covered by many types of insurance. This overlap in the supply of health care services means that changes in the prices paid or the volume of services demanded by one group of patients may affect other patient groups. This paper examines...

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Estimating the Value Added of Attending Physicians on Patient Outcomes

Fletcher, Jason M.; Horwitz, Leora I.; Bradley, Elizabeth - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Despite increasing calls for value-based payments, existing methodologies for determining physicians' "value added" to patient health outcomes have important limitations. We incorporate methods from the value added literature in education research into a health care setting to present the first...

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