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Regulation of Pharmaceutical Prices : Evidence from a Reference Price Reform in Denmark
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2013
domestic products) reference price system.We find that while our estimated consumer compensating variation is small, the reform …
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How Do Drug Prices Respond to a Change from External to Internal Reference Pricing? Evidence from a Danish Regulatory Reform
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2015
We study the effects of a change in the way patient reimbursements are calculated on the prices of pharmaceuticals … analyze three therapeutic classes with different treatment durations and show that the reform led to substantial price … decreases for our lifelong treatment and to less substantial price reductions for our medium duration treatment while we do not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029645
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Patients Whose GP Knows Complementary Medicine Tend to Have Lower Costs and Live Longer
Kooreman, Peter - 2011
Health economists have largely ignored complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) as an area of research, although both clinical experiences and several empirical studies suggest cost-effectiveness of CAM. The objective of this paper is to explore the cost-effectiveness of CAM compared to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123914
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Spillover Effects of Drug Safety Warnings on Health Behavior
Daysal, N. Meltem - 2012
We examine the impact of new medical information on drug safety on preventive health behavior. We exploit the release of the findings of the Women's Health Initiative Study (WHIS) – the largest randomized controlled trial of women's health – which demonstrated in 2002 that long-term Hormone...
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The Miracle Drugs : Hormone Replacement Therapy and Labor Market Behavior of Middle-Aged Women
Daysal, N. Meltem - 2014
In an aging society, determining which factors contribute to the employment of older individuals is increasingly important. We examine the impact of medical innovations on the employment of middle-aged women focusing on the specific case of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), a common treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066337
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Do-it-Yourself Medicine? The Impact of Light Cannabis Liberalization on Prescription Drugs
Carrieri, Vincenzo - 2020
Governments worldwide are increasingly concerned about the booming CBD (cannabidiol) products. However, little is known about the impact of their liberalization. We study a unique case of unintended liberalization of a CBD-based product (light cannabis) that occurred in Italy in 2017. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839052
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Persuasive Agenda-Setting : Rodrigo Duterte's Inauguration Speech and Drugs in the Philippines
Jetter, Michael - 2020
Can democratically elected politicians persuade their constituents to alter policy priorities? With little empirical support for this hypothesis to date, we propose that Rodrigo Duterte's inauguration speech on June 30, 2016 systematically shifted the Filipinos' policy agenda toward prioritizing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839063
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Personal Belief Exemptions for School-Entry Vaccinations, Vaccination Rates, and Academic Achievement
Hair, Nicole - 2020
Nonmedical exemptions from school-entry vaccine mandates are receiving increased policy and public health scrutiny. This paper examines how expanding the availability of exemptions influences vaccination rates in early childhood and academic achievement in middle school. We leverage 2003...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840993
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Vaccines at Work
Hoffmann, Manuel - 2020
Influenza vaccination could be a cost-effective way to reduce costs in terms of human lives and productivity losses, but low take-up rates and vaccination unintentionally causing moral hazard may decrease its benefits. We ran a natural field experiment in cooperation with a bank in Ecuador,...
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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 … expenses of opioid producers increase following opium price declines and so do their stock prices and profits. Overall, our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843718