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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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there is substantial variation in the quality of physicians, as measured by patients’ post-assignment mortality, in the …, combining rich population-wide register data with random assignment of patients to general practitioners (GPs). We show that … point decline in a patient’s two-year mortality risk. While we find evidence of observable doctor characteristics and …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013292046
This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … differ in (geographical) location and, potentially, waiting time, and two types of patients; high-benefit patients who choose … between neighbouring hospitals (competitive segment), and low-benefit patients who decide whether or not to demand treatment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316811
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266664
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931959
Two in five Americans have medical debt, nearly half of whom owe at least $2,500. Concerned by this burden, governments and private donors have undertaken large, high-profile efforts to relieve medical debt. We partnered with RIP Medical Debt to conduct two randomized experiments that relieved...
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The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
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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
This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … differ in (geographical) location and, potentially, waiting time, and two types of patients; high-benefit patients who choose … between neighbouring hospitals (competitive segment), and low-benefit patients who decide whether or not to demand treatment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264231