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

Fischer, Greg; Karlan, Dean S.; McConnell, Margaret; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

comparison effect, decrease subsequent demand. This tension is particularly important for the distribution of health products in … Northern Uganda in which three health products differing in their scope for learning were initially offered either for free or …

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Dynamics of health insurance ownership in Vietnam, 2004 – 06

Nguyen, Trong-Ha; Leung, Suiwah - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2010

health insurance determinants show significant adverse selection in the current health insurance system where individuals … suggest that the current health insurance system entails significant adverse selection where people with worse health are more …Vietnam is undertaking health financing reform in an attempt to achieve universal health insurance coverage by 2014 …

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Free to Choose? Reform and Demand Response in the English National Health Service

Gaynor, Martin; Propper, Carol; Seiler, Stephan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

The impacts of choice in public services are controversial. We exploit a reform in the English National Health Service …

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The effect of peer observation on consumption choices : experimental evidence

Sakha, Sahra; Grohmann, Antonia - 2016

This paper investigates the impact of peer observation on the consumption decisions of rural households in Thailand using a lab-in-the-field experiment. We find that those groups that observe each other show lower within group standard deviation in their decisions. Thus, we find evidence for...

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Survey Instruments and the Reports of Consumption Expenditures: Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Surveys

Battistin, Erich; Padula, Mario - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper provides evidence on the relevance of the collection mode for the analysis of consumption data for the United States using complementary data sets from the Consumer Expenditure Surveys (CEX). We first show that population figures from consumption reports obtained with diaries markedly...

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Average-cost Pricing and Dynamic Selection Incentives in the Hospital Sector

Kifmann, Mathias; Siciliani, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This study investigates hospitals’ dynamic incentives to select patients when hospitals are remunerated according to a prospective payment system of the DRG type. Given that prices typically reflect past average costs, we use a discrete-time dynamic framework. Patients differ in severity...

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Medical insurance and free choice of physician shape patient overtreatment : a laboratory experiment

Huck, Steffen; Lünser, Gabriele; Spitzer, Florian; … - 2016 - October 2014 (revised June 2016)

the effects of medical insurance and competition in the guise of free choice of physician, including observability of … whether he was perhaps overtreated. We find that with insurance, moral hazard looms on both sides of the market: patients … found to partially offset the adverse effects of insurance: most patients seek treatment, but overtreatment is moderated. …

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Medical insurance and free choice of physician shape patient overtreatment : a laboratory experiment

Huck, Steffen; Lünser, Gabriele; Spitzer, Florian; … - 2014

stylized way, we study the effects of medical insurance and competition in the guise of free choice of physician. Medical … overtreated. We find that with insurance, moral hazard looms on both sides of the market: patients consult more often and … adverse effects of insurance: most patients seek treatment, but overtreatment is moderated. …

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Incentive Compatible Reimbursement Schemes for Physicians

Emons, Winand - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We consider physicians with fixed capacity levels. If a physician's capacity exceeds demand, she may have an incentive to overtreat, i.e., she may provide unnecessary treatments to use up idle capacity. By contrast, with excess demand she may undertreat, i.e., she may not provide necessary...

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Investments in Pharmaceuticals Before and After TRIPS

Kyle, Margaret K; McGahan, Anita M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper addresses the relationship between patent protection and investment in the development of new pharmaceutical treatments. The TRIPS Agreement, which specifies minimum levels of intellectual property protection for countries in the World Trade Organization, has increased levels of...

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