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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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We present evidence from a natural field experiment designed to shed light on the efficacy of fundraising schemes in which donations are matched by a lead donor. In conjunction with the Bavarian State Opera House, we mailed 14,000 regular opera attendees a letter describing a charitable...
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We present evidence from a natural field experiment and structural model designed to shed light on the efficacy of alternative fundraising schemes. In conjunction with the Bavarian State Opera, we mailed 25,000 opera attendees a letter describing a charitable fundraising project organized by the...
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When asking for donations, charitable organizations often suggest a potential amount to contribute. However, the evidence concerning the effects of such suggestions is scarce and inconsistent. Unlike the majority of earlier studies concerned with small-money solicitations, we examine the effect...
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