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Saving Lives at Birth : The Impact of Home Births on Infant Outcomes
Daysal, N. Meltem - 2012
Many developed countries have recently experienced sharp increases in home birth rates. This paper investigates the impact of home births on the health of low-risk newborns using data from the Netherlands, the only developed country where home births are widespread. To account for endogeneity in...
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The Impact of Colombia's Pension and Health Insurance Systems on Informality
Calderon-Mejia, Valentina - 2012
Social protection systems in developing countries are typically composed of a bundle of benefits, the major ones being health insurance and pensions. Benefit bundling may increase informality and decrease welfare. Indeed, if some of the benefits are valued at substantially less than their cost,...
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The Value of Socialized Medicine : The Impact of Universal Primary Healthcare Provision on Birth and Mortality Rates in Turkey
Cesur, Resul - 2015
This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), launched in 2005,...
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In Absolute or Relative Terms? How Framing Prices Affects the Consumer Price Sensitivity of Health Plan Choice
Schmitz, Hendrik - 2012
This paper provides field evidence on (a) how price framing affects consumers' decision to switch health insurance plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be influenced by policymakers through simple regulatory efforts. In 2009, in order to foster competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113068
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Cream Skimming by Health Care Providers and Inequality in Health Care Access : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Werbeck, Anna - 2020
Using a randomized field experiment, we show that health care specialists cream-skim patients by their expected profitability. In the German two-tier system, outpatient reimbursement rates for both public and private insurance are centrally determined but are more than twice as high for the...
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The Economics Behind the Epidemic : Afghan Opium Price and Prescription Opioids in the US
Deiana, Claudio - 2020
We investigate the effect of variations in the price of opium in Afghanistan on per capita dispensation of prescription opioids in the US. Quarterly county-level data for 2003-2016 indicate that reductions in opium prices significantly increase the quantity of opioids prescribed. The increase...
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Relative Efficiency, Scale Effect, and Scope Effect of Public Hospitals : Evidence from Australia
Wang, Jian - 2007
Using the 1997-1998 New South Wales public-hospitals comparison data, we investigate the hospital-level inefficiency by … in large hospitals and 11.3% in small hospitals, when including complexity indicators. Second, diseconomies of scale … exist in very large hospitals, whereas scale economies appear in very small hospitals. Third, scope effects are found in …
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Copayments in the German Health System : Does it Work?
Augurzky, Boris - 2006
This paper examines the effect of copayments on doctor visits using the German health care reform of 2004 as a natural experiment. In January 2004, copayments of 10 euros for the first doctor visit in each quarter have been introduced for all adults in the statutory health insurance. Individuals...
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Exit, Voice or Loyalty? An Investigation into Mandated Portability of Front-Loaded Private Health Plans
Atal, Juan Pablo - 2017
We study theoretically and empirically how consumers in an individual private longterm health insurance market with front-loaded contracts respond to newly mandated portability requirements of their old-age provisions. To foster competition, effective 2009, the German legislature made the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952588
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Introducing Risk Adjustment and Free Health Plan Choice in Employer-Based Health Insurance : Evidence from Germany
Pilny, Adam - 2017
To equalize differences in health plan premiums due to differences in risk pools, the German legislature introduced a simple Risk Adjustment Scheme (RAS) based on age, gender and disability status in 1994. In addition, effective 1996, consumers gained the freedom to choose among hundreds of...
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