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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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Increasing the use of telemedicine : a field experiment
González, María Patricia; Scartascini, Carlos G. - 2023
Patients are reluctant to use telemedicine health services. Telemedicine is an "experience good," one that can be … reports the results of a randomized field experiment conducted in collaboration with a health insurance company in Argentina …. During the intervention, about two thousand households with no previous experience with telemedicine received periodic e …
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On the demand for telemedicine : evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic
Busso, Matias; Gonzalez, Maria P.; Scartascini, Carlos G. - 2021
Telemedicine can expand access to health care at relatively low cost. Historically, however, demand for telemedicine … demand for telemedicine experienced after the onset of the COVID-19 epidemic and the imposition of mobility restrictions. We … find a 233 percent increase in the number of telemedicine calls and a 342 percent increase in calls resulting in a …
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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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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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The dietary impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate; Stroud, Rebekah - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant changes in where people work, eat and socialise. We use novel data on the food and non-alcoholic drink purchases from stores, takeaways, restaurants and other outlets to quantify the impact of the pandemic on the diets of a large, representative panel...
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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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