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Partial Insurance and Investments in Children
Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2015
partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is … small. We cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance against temporary shocks. Another interpretation of our findings is … that there is very little insurance available, but the fact that skill is a non-separable function of parental investments …
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Hospital Resources : Persistent Reallocation Under Price Changes
Wozny, Florian - 2020
Changes in medical expenses may force hospitals to reallocate their resources, which potentially come at the detriment of healthcare quality. Using data on the universe of German hospitals, I investigate resource reallocations between capital stock, human resources, services and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833866
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Exit, Voice or Loyalty? An Investigation into Mandated Portability of Front-Loaded Private Health Plans
Atal, Juan Pablo - 2017
We study theoretically and empirically how consumers in an individual private longterm health insurance market with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952588
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Improving Estimation of Labor Market Disequilibrium Using Shortage Indicators, with an Application to the Market for Anesthesiologists
Baird, Matthew - 2019
While economic studies often assume that labor markets are in equilibrium, there may be specialized labor markets that are likely in disequilibrium. We develop a new methodology to improve the estimation of a reduced form disequilibrium model from the existing models by incorporating...
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What Factors Affect Doctors' Hours Decisions : Comparing Structural Discrete Choice and Reduced-Form Approaches
Kalb, Guyonne R.J. - 2015
Few papers examine the pecuniary and non-pecuniary determinants of doctors' labour supply despite substantial predicted shortages in many OECD countries. We contribute to the literature by applying both a structural discrete choice and a reduced-form approach. Using detailed survey data for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022646
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Patient Versus Provider Incentives in Long-Term Care
Hackmann, Martin B.; Pohl, Vincent; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2023
How do patient and provider incentives affect the provision of long-term care? Our analysis of 551 thousand nursing home stays yields three main insights. First, Medicaid-covered residents prolong their stays instead of transitioning to community-based care due to limited cost-sharing. Second,...
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The Design of Insurance Coverage for Medical Products Under Imperfect Competition
Bardey, David - 2015
This paper studies the design of health insurance with ex post moral hazard, when there is imperfect competition in the … are considered. The insurance contract specifies two types of copayments: an ad valorem coinsurance rate and a specific …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028181
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Spatial Decentralization and Program Evaluation : Theory and an Example from Indonesia
Pitt, Mark M. - 2010
This paper proposes a novel instrumental variable method for program evaluation that only requires a single cross-section of data on the spatial intensity of programs and outcomes. The instruments are derived from a simple theoretical model of government decision-making in which governments are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137512
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The Elephant in the Corner : A Cautionary Tale About Measurement Error in Treatment Effects Models
Millimet, Daniel L. - 2010
Researchers in economics and other disciplines are often interested in the causal effect of a binary treatment on outcomes. Econometric methods used to estimate such effects are divided into one of two strands depending on whether they require the conditional independence assumption (i.e.,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138739
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A Simple Approach to Treatment Effects on Durations When the Treatment Timing is Chosen
Lee, M.J. - 2013
When a treatment unambiguously defines the treatment and control groups at a given time point, its effects are usually found by comparing the two groups' mean responses. But there are many cases where the treatment timing is chosen, for which the conventional approach fails.This paper sets up an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085068