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condition for designing effective policies is to identify who drives antibiotic treatment decisions, physicians or patient …
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This paper investigates the effect of physicians on infant mortality, stillbirths and the incidence of common childhood … endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the expulsion of Jewish physicians from health insurance schemes by the … control function approach. Our results indicate that the marginal returns to physicians are highly nonlinear and decreasing …
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expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in … the supply of physicians reduce infant mortality and mortality from common childhood diseases. Using a semiparametric …
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there is substantial variation in the quality of physicians, as measured by patients’ post-assignment mortality, in the …
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We analyze prescription behavior of physicians in the public and private sector. We study two major diseases for which … private sector physicians are more likely to prescribe the expensive medication. The result holds after controlling for … our cases, we further find that the same physicians prescribe different medication when working in different sectors …
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Pharmaceutical firms spend increasing amounts in mergers and acquisitions (M&As), which raises the question of whether sufficient investment is left after mergers to further develop firms' internal drug development capability. We evaluate the effects of M&As on firms' post-merger R&D investments...
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A non-trivial fraction of people cannot afford to buy pharmaceutical products at unregulated market prices. Therefore, the paper analyzes the public insurance of the pharmaceutical products in terms of price controls and the socially optimal third-degree price discrimination. It characterizes...
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There are two types of prescription drug cost offsets. The first type of cost offset—from prescription drug use—is primarily about the effect of changes in drug quantity (e.g. due to changes in out-of-pocket drug costs) on other medical costs. The second type of cost offset—the cost offset...
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Human papillomavirus (HPV) is responsible for almost all of the 570,000 new cases of cervical cancer and approximately 311,000 deaths per year. HPV vaccination is an integral component of the World Health Organization's (WHO) global strategy to fight the disease. However, high vaccine prices...
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pricing system was changed in 2011 in order to tie prices more to the benefits of the pharmaceuticals. A multiple linear … regression of 187 pharmaceuticals which were assessed from 2011 to 2017 suggests that, despite the change, the manufacturers …
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