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We use a Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) to evaluate the impact of cost-sharing on the use of health services. In the Italian health system, individuals reaching age 65 and earning low incomes are given total exemption from cost-sharing for health services consumption. Since the...
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react to changes in economic incentives almost twice as strongly under a deductible policy than under a no-claims refund … perceive deductible payments as a loss and no-claim refunds as a gain. …
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deductible. Our approach exploits two sources of variation in a differences-in-regression-discontinuities design: deductible … deductible by €100 leads to a reduction in healthcare spending of around 3% on the first days of the year and 6% at the annual …
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that was in place was a 350 euro deductible. Our counterfactual experiments show that redistribution would decrease when … the deductible would increase. Nonetheless, high-risk individuals can benefit from higher levels of cost-sharing. The …
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We estimate the causal effect of having full health insurance on health care expenditures. We take advantage of a unique quasi-experimental setup in which deductibles and co-payments were zero in a managed care plan, and non-zero in regular insurance, until a policy change forced all individuals...
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In this study we examine the impact of a value-based insurance design (V-BID) program implemented between 2010 and 2013 at a large public employer in the state of Oregon. The program substantially increased cost-sharing, specifically copayments and coinsurance, for several healthcare services...
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This paper evaluates a Filipino policy that expanded health insurance coverage of its senior citizens, aged 60 and older, in 2014. Using regression discontinuity and difference-in-differences methods, we find that the expansion increases insurance coverage by approximately 16 percentage points....
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Depression, a common and serious illness that is more prevalent among the poor, may limit the demand for health products and other beneficial technologies. To investigate, we evaluate the impact of depression treatment on the demand for a novel health product, hand sanitizer, in India. We...
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We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …
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fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …
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