expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in …This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel … data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the …

The paper analyzes the impact of an experimental maternal and child health and family-planning program that was … implemented in Matlab, Bangladesh in 1977. Village data from 1974, 1982 and 1996 suggest that program villages experienced extra … nearly two decades. Women in program villages also experienced other benefits: lower child mortality, improved health status …

This paper examines the relationship between early childbearing and child mortality in Bangladesh, a country where … adolescent childbearing is of particular concern. We argue that effective use of specific health inputs could however … to use health inputs differently from all other women. After correcting for this possible selectivity bias, the adverse …

The first half of the twentieth century saw rapid improvements in the health and height of British children. Average … height and health can be related to infant mortality through a positive selection effect and a negative scarring effect …

data collected on specialist physicians working in the Province of Quebec (Canada). Our data set contains information on … of policy reform under which physicians could choose between two compensation systems: the traditional fee …-for-service, under which physicians receive a fee for each service provided, and mixed remuneration, under which physicians receive a per …

provides an estimate of how bargaining power is distributed between patients and physicians …

We study the impact of a mixed capitation model known as the Family Health Organization (FHO) on selected quality and … quantity outcomes relative to an enhanced fee-for-service model known as the Family Health Group (FHG) among primary care … physicians in Ontario, Canada. Using a panel of administrative data that covers one year before and two years after the FHO model …

Pay for performance (P4P) incentives for physicians are generally designed as additional payments that can be paired … find that physicians in a blended capitation model are more responsive to the DMI than physicians in an enhanced fee …