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Public health insurance and entry into self-employment
Fossen, Frank M.; König, Johannes - 2015
We estimate the impact of a differential treatment of paid employees versus self-employed workers in a public health insurance system on the entry rate into entrepreneurship. In Germany, the public health insurance system is mandatory for most paid employees, but not for the selfemployed, who...
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Long-term health insurance : theory meets evidence
Atal, Juan Pablo; Fang, Hanming; Karlsson, Martin; … - 2021
-world long-term health insurance markets. We first present and discuss insurer regulation, premium setting, and the main market …
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Inattention and switching costs as sources of inertia in medicare part D
Heiss, Florian; McFadden, Daniel; Winter, Joachim; … - 2019
Consumers' health plan choices are highly persistent even though optimal plans change over time. This paper separates two sources of inertia, inattention to plan choice and switching costs. We develop a panel data model with separate attention and choice stages, linked by heterogeneity in...
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The price ain't right? : hospital prices and health spending on the privately insured
Cooper, Zack; Craig, Stuart; Gaynor, Martin; Van … - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410604
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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
cost sharing subsidies substantially lower out-of-pocket medical care spending, showing that the CSR program is a key …
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Challenges of the private health plans regulation in Brazil
Ocké-Reis, Carlos Octávio - 2015
The idea of regulating private health plans so as to favor major players and the "managed care" is incompatible with the guidelines of the National Health System [Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS)] and for this reason we defend instead a regulatory action aiming to strengthen the public sphere. In...
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Do carbon offsets offset carbon?
Calel, Raphael; Colmer, Jonathan; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine - 2021
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Carrots and sticks : collaboration of taxation and subsidies in contests
Minchuk, Yizhaq; Sela, Aner - 2024
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"More bang for the buck"? : evidence on the effectiveness of an energy efficiency subsidy
Bartels, Lara; Werthschulte, Madeline - 2023
With the aim of limiting global warming, environmental subsidies are a popular public finance instrument to reduce … carbon emissions. However, there is little evidence on why subsidies are effective in increasing demand for the goods … implicit in a subsidy encouraging an energy-efficiency investment. In the experiment, participants decide on purchasing a low …
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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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