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The paper evaluates the German health care reform of 1997, using the individual number of doctor visits as outcome measure. A new econometric model, the Probit-Poisson-log-normal model with correlated errors, describes the data better than existing count data models. Moreover, it has an...
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There is evidence that physicians disproportionately suffer from substance use disorder and mental health problems. It … increases the use of antidepressants, opioids, anxiolytics, and sedatives, especially for female physicians. Among female …
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outcomes between physicians and another highly educated group, lawyers, and between surgeons and non-surgeon physicians … Education 2011 duty hour reform, which lowered trainee work hours, impacted the birth outcomes of babies born to physicians … compared with lawyers. We find that physicians have lower birth weights and shorter pregnancies than lawyers with the results …
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We study the factors that predict medical malpractice ("med mal") insurance premia, using national data from Medical Liability Monitor over 1990 to 2017. A number of core findings are not easily explained by standard economic theory. First, we estimate long run elasticities of premia to...
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expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in … the supply of physicians reduce infant mortality and mortality from common childhood diseases. Using a semiparametric …
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"We evaluate the effect of the size of deductibles in the basic health insurance in Switzerland on the probability of a doctor visit. We employ nonparametric bounding techniques to minimise statistical assumptions. In order to tighten the bounds we consider three further assumptions: mean...
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Germany's needs-based primary care planning system, in which the likelihood of new GPs reduces by 20 percentage points when …
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We study an enhanced fee-for-service model for primary care physicians in the Family Health Groups (FHG) in Ontario … distinct patients seen. We also find that the FHG physicians have lower referral rates and treat slightly more complex patients … than the comparable FFS physicians. These results suggest that the FHG model offers a promising alternative to the FFS …
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physicians in Ontario, Canada. Using a panel of administrative data that covers one year before and two years after the FHO model … was introduced in 2007, we find that physicians in the FHO model provide about 6 percent fewer services and visits per day … immunizations, pap smears, and mammograms compared to physicians in the FHG model. These results are largely consistent with the …
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