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The effect of audit regimes on applications for long-term care

Lindeboom, Maarten; van der Klaauw, Bas; Vriend, Sandra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

This paper studies the effects of various audit regimes, differing in the degree of control and the presence of performance incentives, on behavior of care providers filing applications for providing long-term care services to patients. We present evidence from a large-scale field experiment in...

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Patient Mobility, Health Care Quality and Welfare

Brekke, Kurt Richard; Levaggi, Rosella; Siciliani, Luigi; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients' right to EU-wide provider choice. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility on health care quality, health care financing and...

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Sinking, Swimming, or Learning to Swim in Medicare Part D

Ketcham, Jonathan D.; Lucarelli, Claudio; Miravete, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Under Medicare Part D, senior citizens choose prescription drug insurance offred by numerous private insurers. We examine non-poor enrollees' actions in 2006 and 2007 using panel data. Our sample reduced overspending by $298 on average, with gains by 81% of them. The greatest improvements were...

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The Labor-Supply Effects of Universal Health Coverage: What Can We Learn form Individuals with Coverage Through Their Spouses?

Wellington, A.J.; Codd-Clark, D. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1995

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Waiting Lists and Patient Selection

Barros, Pedro Luis Pita - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

We develop a model of waiting lists for public hospitals when physicians deliver both private and public treatment. Public treatment is free but rationed, i.e., only cases meeting some medical criteria are admitted for treatment. Private treatment has no waiting time but entails payment of a...

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Audit rates and compliance: A field experiment in long-term care

Lindeboom, Maarten; van der Klaauw, Bas; Vriend, Sandra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We provide evidence from a large-scale field experiment on the causal effects of audit rules on compliance in a market for long-term care. In this setting care should be provided quickly and, therefore, the gatekeeper introduced ex-post auditing. Our results do not show significant effects of...

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Awareness and AIDS: A Political Economy Perspective

Aldashev, Gani; Baland, Jean-Marie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Across African countries, prevention policies are unrelated to the prevalence of HIV/AIDS and, even in countries in which they were successful, these policies are often unstable or reversed. To explain these two puzzles, we propose a simple political economy model that examines how prevention...

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Choosing to Compete: How different are girls and boys?

Booth, Alison L; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences … might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …

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Gender Differences in Risk Behaviour: Does Nurture Matter?

Booth, Alison L; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

pressure to conform to gender-stereotypes encourages girls and boys to modify their innate preferences. Single-sex environments … choices to environmental factors could be explored. The results of our real-stakes gamble show that gender differences in … than coed girls. Moreover, gender differences in preferences for risk-taking are sensitive to the gender mix of the …

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Salience, Risky Choices and Gender

Booth, Alison; Nolen, Patrick - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2012

Risk theories typically assume individuals make risky choices using probability weights that differ from objective probabilities. Recent theories suggest that probability weights vary depending on which portion of a risky environment is made salient. Using experimental data we show that salience...

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