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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. - 2019
link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy …
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Do hospitals respond to increasing prices by supplying fewer services?
Salm, Martin; Wübker, Ansgar - 2015
increasing prices. We test this prediction based on a reform of hospital financing in Germany. Uniquely, this reform changed the …
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The impact of air pollution on attributable risks and economic costs of hospitalization for mental disorders
Wu, Ziting; Chen, Xi; Li, Guoxing; Lin, Tian; Wang, Zhan; … - 2020
.5 and risk of hospital admissions (HAs) for MDs in Beijing and measure the attributable risk and economic cost. We apply a …
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Does the marginal hospitalization save lives? : the case of respiratory admissions for the elderly
Currie, Janet M.; Slusky, David - 2020
hospitalization puts patients at risk of hospital acquired conditions and disrupts their lives. We use variation in the patient …'s nearest hospital's propensity to admit patients with similar observable characteristics as an instrument for the admission … we find that the marginal hospital admission increases the number of hospital days by seven days and increases charges by …
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The effect of absolute versus relative temperature on health and the role of social care
Masiero, Giuliano; Mazzonna, Fabrizio; Santarossa, Michael - 2021
We investigate the effect of extreme temperatures on mortality and emergency hospital admissions, and whether local … social care allows to mitigate their adverse effects. We merge monthly administrative data on mortality and hospital … mortality rates and hospital admission rates for both cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. These effects are mostly driven …
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Geographic variation in inpatient care utilization, outcomes and costs for dementia patients in China
Lin, Zhuoer; Ba, Fang; Allore, Heather; Liu, Gordon G.; … - 2022
Dementia leads public health issue worldwide. China has the largest population of adults living with dementia in the world, imposing increasing burdens on the public health and healthcare systems. Despite improved access to health services, inadequate and uneven dementia management remains...
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The economic costs of child maltreatment in UK
Conti, Gabriella; Pizzo, Elena; Morris, Stephen; … - 2021
Child maltreatment is a major public health problem with significant consequences for individual victims and for society. In this paper we quantify for the first time the economic costs of fatal and non-fatal child maltreatment in the UK in relation to several short-, medium- and long-term...
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Does social health insurance reduce financial burden? : panel data evidence from India
Azam, Mehtabul - 2016
Indian government launched the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), a national health insurance scheme, in 2008 that provides cashless health services to poor households in India. We evaluate the impact of RSBY on RSBY beneficiary households' (average treatment impact on the treated)...
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Public expenditure, demography and growth : theory and evidence from India
Pranab Kumar Das; Kar, Saibal - 2016
Many countries in the developed world are ageing in terms of their distribution of population. Conversely, a number of countries in the south have younger population. India for example, has 60% of its population in the age group of 15-59, with the mean age close to 27 years as of present times....
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Cost-sharing and use of health services in Italy : evidence from a fuzzy regression discontinuity design
Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2016
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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