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acupuncture (25), homeopathy (28) and anthroposophic medicine (26). Patients whose GP has additional CAM training have 0 to 30 …
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availability. In the patient preferences field experiment, we find that patients strongly prefer doctors educated in the United …
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We estimate the impact of nurse unions on health care quality using patient discharge data and the universe of hospital unionizations in California between 1996 and 2005. We find that hospitals with a successful union election outperform hospitals with a failed election in 12 of 13 nurse...
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reporting in Kenyan health clinics. We recruit patients and health care providers from public and private health clinics to play … a series of modified Trust Games. In the game, patients can send money to providers, who are then able to reciprocate …. Patients can then file complaints if they are unhappy with the provider's level of reciprocity. We examine patient and provider …
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patients. Thus, targeting provider incentives through alternative payment models, such as episode-based reimbursement, is more …
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-for-service model. We also find that the FHO physicians have lower referral rates and enroll patients of similar complexity compared to …
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We study the efficiency in health systems generated by community health teams, a common strategy in low- and middle-income countries for primary healthcare delivery. We exploit the rollout of a nation-wide expansion of coverage to this model in El Salvador. Using a panel dataset of...
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We conducted a unique randomized experiment to estimate the impact of alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms on household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that were either conditional or...
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We re-analyze the effects of a Danish active labour market program social experiment that included a range of sub-treatments, including monitoring, job search assistance and training. Previous studies have shown that the overall effect of the experiment is positive. We apply newly developed...
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Canada and Denmark, with 30 to 40% of young adults having at some point been employed with a firm that also employed their …
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