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Health Care Reform and the Number of Doctor Visits - An Econometric Analysis
Winkelmann, Rainer - 2001
The paper evaluates the German health care reform of 1997, using the individual number of doctor visits as outcome measure. A new econometric model, the Probit-Poisson-log-normal model with correlated errors, describes the data better than existing count data models. Moreover, it has an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262522
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Health Care Reform and the Number of Doctor Visits - An Econometric Analysis
Winkelmann, Rainer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
The paper evaluates the German health care reform of 1997, using the individual number of doctor visits as outcome measure. A new econometric model, the Probit-Poisson-log-normal model with correlated errors, describes the data better than existing count data models. Moreover, it has an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822340
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Assessing the effectiveness of health care cost containment measures
Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2011
demand of about 20 percent. Indirect measures such as allowing employers to cut statutory sick pay or paid vacation during … health spa stays did not significantly reduce demand. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286006
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The Economics of Hospital Trips and Health Care Reform
Million, Andreas; Rotte, Ralph; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998
help. This hypothesis is examined for the case of demand for hospital care which covers the largest part of public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262263
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In absolute or relative terms? How framing prices affects the consumer price sensitivity of health plan choice
Schmitz, Hendrik; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2011
plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be influenced by policymakers through simple … find that the reform led to a sixfold increase in an individual's switching probability and a threefold demand elasticity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282513
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Overweight and obesity and the demand for primary physician care
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Greve, Jane - 2009
The standard economic model for the demand for health care predicts that unhealthy behaviour such as being overweight … or obese should increase the demand for medical care, particularly as clinical studies link obesity to a number of … serious diseases. In this paper, we investigate whether overweight or obese individuals demand more medical care than normal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271246
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Does Changing the Legal Drinking Age Influence Youth Behaviour?
Boes, Stefan; Stillman, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper examines the impact of a reduction in the legal drinking age in New Zealand from 20 to 18 on alcohol use, and alcohol-related hospitalisations and vehicular accidents among teenagers. We use both a difference-in-differences approach and a regression discontinuity design (RDD) to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685370
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You Drink, You Drive, You Die? The Dynamics of Youth Risk Taking in Response to a Change in the Legal Drinking Age
Boes, Stefan; Stillman, Steven - 2017
This paper exploits the reduction in the legal drinking age in New Zealand from 20 to 18 to study the dynamics of youth risk taking. Using administrative data on the universe of road accidents over a fifteen year period spanning the law change, we undertake three complimentary analyses to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653271
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Does Changing the Legal Drinking Age Influence Youth Behaviour?
Boes, Stefan; Stillman, Steven - 2013
This paper examines the impact of a reduction in the legal drinking age in New Zealand from 20 to 18 on alcohol use, and alcohol-related hospitalisations and vehicular accidents among teenagers. We use both a difference-in-differences approach and a regression discontinuity design (RDD) to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319516
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Estimating Fixed Effects: Perfect Prediction and Bias in Binary Response Panel Models, with an Application to the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program
Kunz, Johannes S.; Staub, Kevin E.; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2017
The maximum likelihood estimator for the regression coefficients, β, in a panel binary response model with fixed effects can be severely biased if N is large and T is small, a consequence of the incidental parameters problem. This has led to the development of conditional maximum likelihood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011787032