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Hospital capacity reporting in Germany during COVID-19

Reif, Simon; Schubert, Sabrina - 2023

During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals faced a unique predicament. Hospital care was urgently needed and society took … efforts to prevent overwhelming hospitals. However, hospitals in case-based reimbursement schemes faced financial problems …, emergency financing measures were implemented in many countries. We analyze how hospitals in Germany responded to a scheme that …

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The effects of an increase in the retirement age on health : evidence from administrative data

Barschkett, Mara; Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; … - 2021

This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort-specific pension reform for women using two complementary empirical approaches - a Regression Discontinuity Design and a Difference-in-Differences approach. The analysis is based on...

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Social capital and the spread of Covid-19 : insights from European countries

Bartscher, Alina Kristin; Seitz, Sebastian; Slotwinski, … - 2020

We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pandemic in independent analyses for Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. We exploit within-country variation in social capital and Covid-19 cases to show that high-social-capital...

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The CoViD-19 pandemic and mental health : disentangling crucial channels

Siflinger, Bettina; Paffenholz, Michaela; Seitz, Sebastian - 2021

Since the start of the CoViD-19 pandemic, a major source of concern has been its effect on mental health. Using pre- pandemic information and have customized questionnaires in the Dutch LISS panel, we investigate how mental health in the working population has evolved along with the most...

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Long-term health insurance : theory meets evidence

Atal, Juan Pablo; Fang, Hanming; Karlsson, Martin; … - 2021

To insure policyholders against contemporaneous health expenditure shocks and future reclassification risk, long-term health insurance constitutes an alternative to community-rated short-term contracts with an individual mandate. In this paper, we study the German long-term health insurance...

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Motivated health risk denial and preventative health care investments

Schwardmann, Peter - 2017

People deny health risks, invest too little in disease prevention, and are highly sensitive to the price of preventative health care, especially in developing countries. Moreover, private sector R and D spending on developing-country diseases is almost non-existent. To explain these empirical...

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How do low-income enrollees in the affordable care act marketplaces respond to cost sharing?

Lavetti, Kurt; DeLeire, Thomas C.; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2023

The Affordable Care Act requires insurers to offer cost sharing reductions (CSRs) to low-income consumers on the Marketplaces. We link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy-driven differences in the actuarial value of CSR...

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Patient versus provider incentives in long-term care

Hackmann, Martin B.; Pohl, R. Vincent; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2023

How do patient and provider incentives affect the provision of long-term care? Our analysis of 551 thousand nursing home stays yields three main insights. First, Medicaid-covered residents prolong their stays instead of transitioning to community-based care due to limited cost-sharing. Second,...

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Healthy business? : managerial education and management in healthcare

Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2017

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Facility management services in UK hospitals : in-house or outsourcing

Podaneva, Alena; Picard, Pierre M. - 2023

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