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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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Beyond cash: Assessing externality and behaviour effects of non-experimental cash transfers
Ribas, Rafael Perez; Soares, Fábio Veras; Teixeira, … - 2010
In this paper we propose a method to estimate externality effects in cash transfer programmes, even in cases when the benefit is not randomly assigned. Externality is assessed through the decomposition of the average treatment effect on the treated (ATT) into participation (direct) effect and...
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Externality and behavioural change effects of a non-randomised CCT programme: Heterogeneous impact on the demand for health and education
Teixeira, Clarissa Gondim; Soares, Fabio Veras; Ribas, … - 2011
's attendance at school and increasing visits to the health centres. They also suggest that the positive impacts do not reach non …
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Testing for Micro Efficiency in the Housing Market
Anundsen, André K.; Larsen, Erling Røed - 2016
While aggregate house price indices display time persistence, less is known about micro persistence. This article proposes that absence of micro persistence implies that an excessively high or low sell price in one transaction is not repeated in the next transaction. We exploit a unique...
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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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Sample selection models without exclusion restrictions: Parameter heterogeneity and partial identification
Honoré, Bo E.; Hu, Luojia - 2022
This paper studies semiparametric versions of the classical sample selection model (Heckman (1976, 1979)) without … version of Heckman's classical sample selection model are consistent with the data for women with no college education, but …
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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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