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Mums go online : is the internet changing the demand for healthcare?

Amaral-Garcia, Sofia; Nardotto, Mattia; Propper, Carol; … - 2020

We study the effect of internet diffusion on childbirth procedures performed in England between 2000 and 2011. We exploit an identification strategy based on geographical discontinuities in internet access generated by technological factors. We show that broadband internet access increased...

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Regional health care decentralization in unitary states : equal spending, equal satisfaction?

Costa-Font, Joan; Turati, Gilberto - 2016

Does regional decentralization threaten the commitment to regional equality in government outcomes? We attempt to shed light on this question by drawing on unique evidence from the largest European unitary states to have engaged in countrywide health system decentralization: Italy and Spain. We...

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Divided we survive? : multi-level governance and policy uncertainty during the first wave of Covid-19

Angelici, Marta; Berta, Paolo; Costa-Font, Joan; … - 2021

We compare health system responses to the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and Spain. In both countries, healthcare is managed at the regional level, but the central government behaved differently in the uncertainty surrounding the first wave, leaving more autonomy to regional...

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Political agency and public health care : evidence from India

Costa-Font, Joan; Parmar, Divya - 2017

A growing literature studies the effect of enhancing the agency relationship between political incumbents and constituents on the use of health care, and specifically maternal and preventive care services. We examine the development of institutions of self-governance in India, and specifically...

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Health values, preference inconsistency, and insurance demand

Wrede, Matthias (contributor) - 2005

demand for medical care. It considers the insurance demand of different types of agents: naive individuals, individuals who … are able to commit to medical care demand and sophisticated individuals. Furthermore, it raises the question of whether …

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Demand patterns for treatment insurance in Norway

Aarbu, Karl Ove - 2010

theoretical model that identifies primary drivers for individual demand for treatment insurance. The third step is to analyse a … public waiting lists affect the demand for privately bought insurance, while employer-provided insurance does not seem to be … important determinant of insurance demand. …

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Heterogeneous effects of a nonlinear price schedule for outpatient care

Farbmacher, Helmut; Ihle, Peter; Schubert, Ingrid; … - 2013

demand. In this paper, we develop and apply a finite mixture bivariate probit model to analyze whether there are …

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Public health care with waiting time : the role of supplementary private health care

Hoel, Michael; Sæther, Erik Magnus - 2001

We consider an economy where most of the health care is publicly provided,and where there is waiting time for several types of treatments. Privatehealth care without waiting time is an option for the patients in the publichealth queue. We show that although patients with low waiting costs...

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Do market incentives for hospitals affect health and service utilization? : evidence from PPS-DRG tariffs in Italian regions

Cappellari, Lorenzo; De Paoli, Anna; Turati, Gilberto - 2016

We exploit variation across Italian Regions in the implementation of region-specific tariffs within a Prospective Pay System (PPS) for hospitals based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) to assess their impact on health and on the use of health care services. We consider survey data for the years...

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Subsidies, information, and the timing of children's health care in Mali

Sautmann, Anja; Brown, Samuel; Dean, Mark - 2016

randomized control trial of 1544 children in Mali. In a dynamic model of healthcare demand, misuse relative to policymaker … increase demand by over 250%, but overuse is rare with or without the subsidy. Information, contrary to intent, appears to …

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