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Physicians and the Production of Health : Returns to Health Care During the Mortality Transition
Liebert, Helge; Mäder, Beatrice - 2022
This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel … data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the … expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013292046
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Birth in Times of War - an Investigation of Health, Mortality and Social Class Using Historical Clinical Records
Geiger, Nadine - 2019
WWII on newborn health using a unique data set of historical birth records ranging from December 1937 to September 1941 …. Furthermore we investigate the heterogeneity of this effect with respect to health at birth and for different social groups. To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012872061
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Nudging the Nudger: A Field Experiment on the Effect of Performance Feedback to Service Agents on Increasing Organ Donor Registrations
House, Julian; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Mazar, Nina - 2022
We conducted a randomized controlled trial involving nearly 700 customer-service representatives (CSRs) in a Canadian government service agency to study whether providing CSRs with performance feedback with or without peer comparison affected their subsequent organ donor registration rates....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470271
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Birth in times of war - An investigation of health, mortality and social class using historical clinical records
Geiger, Nadine; Wichert, Sebastian - 2019
WWII on newborn health using a unique data set of historical birth records ranging from December 1937 to September 1941 …. Furthermore we investigate the heterogeneity of this effect with respect to health at birth and for different social groups. To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018284
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Physician Density and Infant Mortality: A Semiparametric Analysis of the Returns to Health Care Provision
Liebert, Helge; Mäder, Beatrice - 2018
endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the expulsion of Jewish physicians from health insurance schemes by the … measles, influenza and bronchitis. To investigate diminishing returns to health care provision, we develop a semiparametric …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931959
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Does cost sharing really reduce inappropriate prescriptions?
Costa-i-Font, Joan; Gemmill-Toyama, Marin - 2010
This paper explores different empirical strategies to examine the effect of cost sharing for prescription drugs in some dimensions of medication-related quality, namely the probability of inappropriate prescription drug use among United States seniors. Using data from 1996 to 2005, we explore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270533
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The Effects of Medical Debt Relief: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments
Kluender, Raymond; Mahoney, Neale; Wong, Francis; Yin, … - 2024
medical bills. Third, we find no effect of medical debt relief on mental health on average, with detrimental effects for some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534376
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Do Medical Treatments Work for Work? Evidence from Breast Cancer Patients
Daysal, N. Meltem; Evans, William N.; Pedersen, Mikkel Hasse - 2024
access to treatment may not be sufficient to reduce health inequalities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534396
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EU Solidarity and Policy in Fighting Infectious Diseases: State of Play, Obstacles, Citizen Preferences and Ways Forward.
de Ruijter, Anniek; Beetsma, Roel; Burgoon, Brian; … - 2020
In this paper we confront the role the EU traditionally plays in the domain of health with the urgent need for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207987
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Policy Implications of Models of the Spread of Coronavirus: Perspectives and Opportunities for Economists
Avery, Christopher; Bossert, William; Clark, Adam Thomas; … - 2020
This paper provides a critical review of models of the spread of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that have been influential in recent policy discussions. It notes potentially important features of the real- world environment that the standard models do not incorporate and discusses reasons why...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227633