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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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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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Volatility, Financial Development and the Natural Resource Curse

Poelhekke, Steven; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Cross-country evidence is presented on resource dependence and the link between volatility and growth. First, growth depends negatively on volatility of unanticipated output growth independent of initial income per capita, the average investment share, initial human capital, trade openness, the...

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Do Natural Resources Attract FDI? Evidence from Non-Stationary Sector-Level Data

Poelhekke, Steven; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

reserves and the oil price and to allowing for sample selection bias. …

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Can the Natural Resource Curse Be Turned Into a Blessing? The Role of Trade Policies and Institutions

Arezki, Rabah; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We criticize existing empirical results on the detrimental effects of natural resource dependence on the rate of economic growth after controlling for institutional quality, openness, and initial income. These results do not survive once we use instrumental variables techniques to correct for...

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Measuring Income Risk

Burgess, Simon; Gardiner, Karin; Jenkins, Stephen P; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

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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