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Dedicated doctors : public and private provision of health care with altruistic physicians
Delfgaauw, Josse - 2007
Physicians are supposed to serve patients' interests, but some are more inclined to do so than others. This paper … studies how the system of health care provision affects the allocation of patients to physicians when physicians differ in … altruistic physicians infer that in their absence, NHS patients receive lower treatment quality than private sector patients …
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Why are residents reluctant to consult attending physicians?
Swank, Otto H. - 2009
A physician performs two tasks: making diagnoses and determining treatments. To reduce medical error, residents are supposed to consult their supervisors when they face uncommon circumstances. However, recent research shows that residents are reluctant to do so. This paper presents a model that...
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Reciprocity and incentive pay in the workplace
Dur, Robert A. J.; Non, Jan Adrianus; Roelfsema, Hein - 2008
We study optimal incentive contracts for workers who are reciprocal to management attention. When neither worker's effort nor manager's attention can be contracted, a double moral-hazard problem arises, implying that reciprocal workers should be given weak financial incentives. In a...
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Insurance and information : firms as a commitment device
Bovenberg, Ary Lans; Teulings, Coen N. - 2001
We explore the role of firms in insuring non-verifiable output. As a device that allows workers to commit to thedelivery of their output, the firm arises endogenously as an alternative to the market if workers are sufficiently riskaverse and the firm can base its incentive payments on good...
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When Galatea cares about her reputation : how having faith in your workers reduces their motivation to shine
Kamphorst, Jurjen J. A.; Swank, Otto H. - 2010
We develop a theory of leadership that focuses on the role managersplay in motivating employees through their attitude …
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Optimal incentives without expected utility
Gonzalez Jimenez, Victor H. - 2022
This paper investigates the optimal design of incentives when agents distort probabilities. We show that the type of probability distortion displayed by the agent and its degree determine whether an incentivecompatible contract can be implemented, the strength of the incentives included in the...
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Biases in willingness-to-pay measures from multinomial logit estimates due to unobserved heterogeneity
Berg, Vincent A. C. van den; Kroes, Eric; Verhoef, Erik T. - 2010
It is a common finding in empirical discrete choice studies that the estimated mean relative values of the coefficients (i.e. WTP's) from multinomial logit (MNL) estimations differ from those calculated using mixed logit estimations, where the mixed logit has the better statistical fit. However,...
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Do stepping stone jobs exist? : early career paths in the medical profession
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Holm, Anders; Ours, Jan C. van - 1999
In the Netherlands, students who want to become a medical specialist have toenrol in a training program which is in limited supply. During the search for aposition as trainee (or "junior medical specialist"), they may accept atemporary job as a medical assistant. We use a micro data set to...
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A dynamic analysis of the demand for health insurance and health care
Bolhaar, Jonneke; Lindeboom, Maarten; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2008
We investigate the presence of moral hazard and advantageous or adverse selection in a market for supplementary health insurance. For this we specify and estimate dynamic models for health insurance decisions and health care utilization. Estimates of the health care utilization models indicate...
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Age-differentiated QALI losses
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001
In this paper we evaluate the QALY loss, which may be assigned to the prevalence of specific chronic illnesses and physical handicaps. The analysis is based on an individual self-rating health satisfaction question asked in the British Household Panel Survey data set. This question provides a...
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