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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 Allocation of Time in Sleep: a Social Network Model with Sampled Data

Liu, Xiaodong; Patacchini, Eleonora; Rainone, Edoardo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health. The sampling design of the survey causes the conventional 2SLS estimator to be …

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Extending Choice In English Health Care: The implications of the economic evidence

Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; Wilson, Deborah - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

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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Death by Market Power: Reform, Competition and Patient Outcomes in the National Health Service

Gaynor, Martin; Moreno-Serra, Rodrigo; Propper, Carol - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

The effect of competition on the quality of health care remains a contested issue. Most empirical estimates rely on …

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Competition, Equity and Quality in HealthCare

Halonen-Akatwijuka, Maija; Propper, Carol - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

health care markets. We show that competition generally favours the majority group as higher quality for the majority is an …

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Can governments do it better? Merger mania and hospital outcomes in the English NHS

Gaynor, Martin; Laudicella, Mauro; Propper, Carol - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

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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Does quality affect patients’ choice of doctor? Evidence from the UK

Gravelle, Hugh S; Propper, Carol; Santos, Rita - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

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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Juvenile Delinquency and Conformism

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper studies whether conformism behavior affects individual outcomes in crime. We present a social network model of peer effects with ex-ante heterogeneous agents and show how conformism and deterrence affect criminal activities. We then bring the model to the data by using a very detailed...

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Mismatch, Transport Mode and Search Decisions in England

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We develop a theoretical model in which whites mainly use private vehicles to commute whereas non-whites use public transportation. We show that, for whites and non-whites, higher (time) distance-to-jobs leads to lower search effort. Because of different transport modes, we also show that, at...

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Systemic Risk and Network Formation in the Interbank Market

Cohen-Cole, Ethan; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We propose a novel mechanism to facilitate understanding of systemic risk in financial markets. The literature on systemic risk has focused on two mechanisms, common shocks and domino-like sequential default. Our approach is a formal model that provides an intellectual combination of the two by...

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