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Digital Waste? Unintended Consequences of Health Information Technology
Bockerman, Petri - 2019
We exploit a large-scale natural experiment – the rollout of a nationwide electronic prescribing system in Finland – to study how digitization of prescriptions affects pharmaceutical use and health outcomes. We use comprehensive administrative data from patients treated with benzodiazepines,...
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Consumption Smoothing in the Demand for Health Care
Kristensen, Nicolai - 2016
We investigate how, in temporary economic hardship, agents change their consumption of health services, and how this depends on whether the service is universally free-of-charge visits to GP's or privately co-financed dental care. We find that own expenditures for dental care decrease. The...
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Can Regional Decentralisation Shift Health Care Preferences?
Costa-Font, Joan - 2017
Uniform health care delivered by a mainstream public insurer – such as the National Health Service (NHS), seldom satisfies heterogeneous demands for care, and some unsatisfied share of the population either use private health care, or purchase private insurance (PHI). One potential mechanism...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942108
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Changes in Healthcare Utilization, Spending, and Perceived Health During Covid–19 : A Longitudinal Study from Singapore
Ahn, SangNam - 2020
The COVID–19 pandemic has challenged the capacity of healthcare systems around the world and can potentially compromise … healthcare utilization and health outcomes among non-COVID–19 patients. Using monthly panel data of nationally representative … middle-aged and older Singaporeans, we examined the associations of the pandemic with healthcare utilization, out …
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"Placebo Tests" for the Impacts of Air Pollution on Health : The Challenge of Limited Healthcare Infrastructure
Guidetti, Bruna; Pereda, Paula; Severnini, Edson - 2021
falsification tests. If healthcare infrastructure is limited, when we observe health shocks such as those driven by air pollution …
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Did Medicaid Expansion Reduce Medical Divorce?
Slusky, David - 2020
Medical divorce occurs when couples split up so that one spouse's medical bills do not deplete the assets of the healthy spouse. It has not been studied in the economics literature, but it has been discussed by attorneys and widely reported in the media. We develop a model of medical divorce...
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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; Chen, Xi - 2021
Doing "more" in healthcare can be a major threat to the delivery of high-quality health care. This study used coarsened … between patients affiliated with healthcare professionals and their counterpart patients not affiliated with healthcare … professionals. Using the China Labor-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS) in 2014, we identified 806 patients affiliated with healthcare …
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Management, Supervision, and Health Care : A Field Experiment
Dunsch, Felipe - 2017
If health service delivery is poorly managed, then increases in inputs or ability may not translate into gains in quality. However, little is known about how to increase managerial capital to generate persistent improvements in quality. We present results from a randomized field experiment in 80...
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Healthcare Utilization at Retirement : The Role of the Opportunity Cost of Time
Lucifora, Claudio - 2018
We investigate the causal impact of retirement on healthcare utilization using SHARE data for 10 European countries. We … of healthcare utilization) increase after retirement. The increase in healthcare utilization is found to depend mainly on …-of-work activities). Overall, the empirical findings suggest that the increase in healthcare utilization is consistent with the decrease …
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Performance Pay and Productivity in Health Care : Evidence from Community Health Centers
Cadena, Brian C. - 2019
Nearly half of high earning workers receive performance pay as part of their compensation, but we know strikingly little about the incentive effects of piece rate compensation on high-skilled workers. In this paper, we examine changes in medical providers' output in response to a piece rate...
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