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Physician effects in antibiotic prescribing : evidence from physician exits
Huang, Shan; Ullrich, Hannes - 2021
condition for designing effective policies is to identify who drives antibiotic treatment decisions, physicians or patient …
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Does your doctor matter? : doctor quality and patient outcomes
Ginja, Rita; Riise Kolstad, Julie; Willage, Barton; … - 2022
there is substantial variation in the quality of physicians, as measured by patients' post-assignment mortality, in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255868
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Rent seeking, capital accumulation, and macroeconomic growth
Heijdra, Ben J.; Heijnen, Pim - 2023
We study the effects of time-using rent-seeking activities on the macroeconomic allocation and the economic growth rate. We formulate a highly stylized three-sector general equilibrium model with overlapping generations of individuals. The production side features one sector producing the...
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Automation, economic growth, and the labor share - a comment on Prettner (2019)
Heer, Burkhard; Irmen, Andreas - 2019 - This Version: June 24, 2019
Prettner (2019) studies the implications of automation for economic growth and the labor share in a variant of the Solow-Swan model. The aggregate production function allows for two types of capital, traditional and automation capital. Traditional capital and labor are imperfect substitutes...
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Demand patterns for treatment insurance in Norway
Aarbu, Karl Ove - 2010
In Scandinavia, the provision of health care services has been, almost entirely, the responsibility of the public health care system. However, in the last five to seven years there has been remarkable growth in the private health care market. These health care services are obtained normally...
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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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Patient mobility, health care quality and welfare
Brekke, Kurt R.; Levaggi, Rosella; Siciliani, Luigi; … - 2014
Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients' right to EU-wide provider choice. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility on health care quality, health care financing and...
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Physicians and the production of health : returns to health care during the mortality transition
Liebert, Helge; Mäder, Beatrice - 2022
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Physician density and infant mortality : a semiparametric analysis of the returns to health care provision
Liebert, Helge; Mäder, Beatrice - 2018
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/10011898604
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Competition and physician behaviour : does the competitive environment affect the propensity to issue sickness certificates?
Brekke, Kurt R.; Holmås, Tor Helge; Monstad, Karin; … - 2017
Competition among physicians is widespread, but compelling empirical evidence on the impact on service provision is …
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