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Aging and Health Care Expenditures : A Non-Parametric Approach

Lorenz, Normann - 2020

One of the most important controversies in health economics concerns the question whether the imminent aging of the population in most OECD countries will place an additional burden on the tax payers who finance public health care systems. Proponents of the "red-herring hypothesis" argue that...

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The 'Red Herring' after 20 Years : Ageing and Health Care Expenditures

Breyer, Friedrich - 2019

20 years ago, Zweifel, Felder and Meier (1999) established the by now famous "red-herring" hypothesis, according to which population ageing does not lead to an increase in per capita health care expenditures (HCE) because the observed positive correlation between age and health care expenditures...

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Plugging Gaps in Payment Systems : Evidence from the Take-Up of New Medicare Billing Codes

Clemens, Jeffrey P.; Leganza, Jonathan M.; Masucci, Alex - 2021

Over the last decade, the U.S. Medicare program has added new billing codes to enhance the financial rewards for Chronic Care Management and Transitional Care Management. We show that the take-up of these new billing codes is gradual and exhibits substantial variations across markets and...

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Medicare and the Rise of American Medical Patenting : The Economics of User-Driven Innovation

Clemens, Jeffrey P.; Olsen, Morten - 2021

Innovation is part idea generation and part development. We build a model of “innovating-bydoing,” whereby ideas come to practitioners. Successful innovation requires that practitioners’ideas be developed through costly effort. Our model nests existing theories of laboratory researchand...

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Physician Density and Infant Mortality : A Semiparametric Analysis of the Returns to Health Care Provision

Liebert, Helge - 2018

This paper investigates the effect of physicians on infant mortality, stillbirths and the incidence of common childhood diseases. We construct a new panel data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936 based on historical sources. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by...

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Coinsurance vs. Copayments : Reimbursement Rules for a Monopolistic Medical Product with Competitive Health Insurers

Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, Jean-Marie - 2021

This paper studies a market for a medical product in which there is perfect competition among health insurers, while the good is sold by a monopolist. Individuals differ in their severity of illness and there is ex post moral hazard. We consider two regimes: one in which insurers use coinsurance...

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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...

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‘Investing’ in Care for Old Age? An Examination of Long-Term Care Expenditure Dynamics and Its Spillovers

Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana-Prieto, Cristina - 2022

We first study the dynamic drivers of expenditure on long-term care (LTC) programs, and more specifically, the effects of labour market participation of traditional unpaid caregivers (women aged 40 and older) on LTC spending. Second, we examine spillover effects of a rise on LTC expenditure on...

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Supplementary private health insurance in selected countries : lessons for EU governments?

Gechert, Sebastian - 2009

A famous idea to maintain affordable health expenditures is to cut back statutory health insurance (SHI) to a basic insurance and to introduce supplementary private health insurance (PHI), permitted to cover the remaining benefits and to apply managed care mechanisms. The measure is supposed to...

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Gender Differences in Professional Career Dynamics : New Evidence from a Global Law Firm

Ganguli, Ina - 2020

We examine gender gaps in career dynamics in the legal sector using rich panel data from one of the largest global law … sample includes countries at different stages of development. We document the cross-country variation in gender gaps and how … these gaps have changed over time. We show that while there is gender parity at the entry level in most countries by the end …

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