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Health care reform and the number of doctor visits : an econometric analysis
Winkelmann, Rainer - 2001
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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The effects of becoming a physician on prescription drug use and mental health treatment
Anderson, D. Mark; Diris, Ron; Montizaan, Raymond; … - 2021
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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Occupational hazard? : an analysis of birth outcomes among physician mothers
Jena, Anupam B.; Slusky, David; Springer, Lilly - 2023
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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Physicians and the production of health : returns to health care during the mortality transition
Liebert, Helge; Mäder, Beatrice - 2022
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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How do insurers price medical malpractice insurance?
Black, Bernard S.; Traczynski, Jerey; Udalova, Victoria - 2022
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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How does occupational licensing affect entry into the medical field? : an examination of EMTs
Yelowitz, Aaron S.; Ingram, Samuel J. - 2021
The COVID‐19 pandemic has led to temporary suspensions of many occupational licensing laws, especially for health care professionals, in an effort to manage surges in health care demand. The crisis highlights more general concerns about occupational licensing laws, yet convincing empirical...
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The gender pay gap in UK medicine
Jones, Melanie; Kaya, Ezgi - 2021
In this study we quantify the size and drivers of the contemporary gender pay gap among medical doctors employed in the UK public sector. In using nationally representative data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, we make comparisons to doctors employed in the private sector, as well...
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Re-examining supplier-induced demand in health care: comparisons among patients affiliated and not affiliated with healthcare professionals in China
Si, Yafei; Zhou, Zhongliang; Su, Min; Hu, Han; Yang, Zesen - 2020
Doing "more" in healthcare can be a major threat to the delivery of high-quality health care. This study used coarsened exact matching to test the hypothesis of supplier-induced demand (SID) by comparing health care utilization and expenditures between patients affiliated with healthcare...
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Measuring physicians' response to incentives : evidence on hours worked and multitasking
Shearer, Bruce S.; Somé, Nibene Habib; Fortin, Bernard - 2018
We measure the response of physicians to monetary incentives using matched administrative and time-use data on … specialists from Québec (Canada). These physicians were paid fee-for-service contracts and supplied a number of different services …-supply response of physicians to broad-based fee increases. The second is the response to changes in the relative prices of individual …
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Information provision and streamlined medical service : evidence from a mobile appointment app
Song, Changcheng; Yang, Nan; Yi, Junjian; Yuan, Ye - 2018
We examine the launch of a mobile outpatient appointment app in China to study the effect of information provision and a streamlined appointment process on hospital operations and the alignment of healthcare supply and demand. Using a longitudinal dataset on hospital operations and a...
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