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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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Will you still need me, will you still feed me when I'm 64? : the health impact of caregiving
Zwart, P. L. de; Bakx, P.; Van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2016
informal caregiving are borne by the caregiver and may consist of worse health outcomes and, if the caregiver has not retired …, worse labor market outcomes. We estimate the impact of providing informal care to one’s partner on the caregiver's health … using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). We exploit the panel structure of the data …
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When health care insurance does not make a difference : the case of health care "made in China"
Dalen, Hendrik P. van - 2006
Does medical insurance affect health care demand and in the end contribute to improvements in the health status …? Evidence for China for the year 2004, by means of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), shows that health insurance … does not affect health care demand in a significant manner. Counterfactuals suggest that full insurance coverage of the …
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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 own and social effects of an unexpected income shock
Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Kooreman, Peter; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Rev. May 5, 2010
Each week, the Dutch Postcode Lottery (PCL) randomly selects a postal code, and distributes cash and a new BMWto lottery participants in that code. We study the effects of these shocks on lottery winners and their neighbors.Consistent with the life-cycle hypothesis, the effects on winners’...
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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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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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The health returns to education : what can we learn from twins?
Lundborg, Petter - 2008
the education/health gradient. I am also able to rule out occupational hazards and health insurance coverage as …This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin … both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with …
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