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Has the introduction of greater choice and competition in healthcare in England led to improved outcomes for patients? The authors assess changes in the quality of care that hospitals provided for cardiac surgery patients following the mid-2000s reforms.
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The impacts of choice in public services are controversial. We exploit a reform in the English National Health Service …
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Extending choice in health care is currently popular amongst English, and other, politicians. Those promoting choice … choice acts as a major driver for efficiency. Giving service users the ability to choose applies competitive pressure to … health care providers and, analogously with private markets, they will raise their game to attract business. The paper …
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The effect of competition on the quality of health care remains a contested issue. Most empirical estimates rely on …
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health care markets. We show that competition generally favours the majority group as higher quality for the majority is an …
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half the short term general hospitals were involved in a merger, but that politics means that selection for a merger may be …
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important part of the health care market using data on the choices made by 3.4 million English patients from amongst nearly 1000 …
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We provide a critique of the methods that have been used to derive measures of income risk and draw attention to the importance of demographic factors as a source of income risk. We also propose new measures of the contribution to total income risk of demographic and labour market factors....
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What are the welfare effects of a policy that facilitates for insurance customers to privately and covertly learn about … their accident risks? We endogenize the information structure in Stiglitz's classic monopoly insurance model. We first show …
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We study a monopoly insurance model with endogenous information acquisition. Through a continuous effort choice …
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