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Healer or Gatekeeper? Physicians' Role Conflict When Symptoms Are Non-Verifiable
Carlsen, Benedicte; Nyborg, Karine - 2017
Although physicians are often expected to be gatekeepers to health insurance benefits such as paid sick leave, research … most physicians prefer to be good gatekeepers, all of them may trust their patients in Nash equilibrium. These ideas are … illustrated using results from focus group interviews with Norwegian primary care physicians. …
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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...
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The sociology of groups and the economics of incentives: theory and evidence on compensation systems
Encinosa, William E.; Gaynor, Martin; Rebitzer, James B. - 2005
When working together, people engage in non-contractual and informal interactions that constitute the sociology of the group. We use behavioral models and a unique survey of medical groups to analyze how group sociology influences physician incentive pay and behavior. We conclude that informal...
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Sick of your colleagues' absence?
Hesselius, Patrik; Johansson, Per; Nilsson, Peter - 2009
We utilize a large-scale randomized social experiment to identify how coworkers affect each other's effort as measured by work absence. The experiment altered the work absence incentives for half of all employees living in Göteborg, Sweden. Using administrative data we are able to recover the...
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Gender Differences in Sickness Absence and the Gender Division of Family Responsibilities
Angelov, Nikolay; Johansson, Per-Olov; Lindahl, Erica - 2013
This study investigates possible reasons for the gender difference in sickness absence. We estimate both short- and long-term effects of parenthood in a within-couple analysis based on the timing of parenthood. We find that after entering parenthood, women increase their sickness absence by...
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The anatomy of absenteeism
Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut; Røgeberg, Ole J.; … - 2009
Based on comprehensive administrative register data from Norway, we examine the determinants of sickness absence …
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Do You Have to Win It to Fix It? A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Winners and Their Health Care Demand
Cheng, Terence Chai; Costa-i-Font, Joan; Powdthavee, … - 2015
We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in the United Kingdom. This strategy allows us to estimate lottery income elasticities for a range of health care services that are publicly and privately provided. The results...
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Do You Have to Win It to Fix It? A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Winners and Their Health Care Demand
Cheng, Terence Chai; Costa-i-Font, Joan; Powdthavee, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in the United Kingdom. This strategy allows us to estimate lottery income elasticities for a range of health care services that are publicly and privately provided. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210819
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The Social Value of a SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine: Willingness to Pay Estimates from Four Western Countries
Costa-Font, Joan; Rudisill, Caroline; Harrison, Sayward; … - 2021
SARS-CoV-2 vaccines give rise to positive externalities on population health, society and the economy in addition to protecting the health of vaccinated individuals. Hence, the social value of such a vaccine exceeds its market value. This paper estimates the willingness to pay (WTP) for a...
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A Path Out: Prescription Drug Abuse, Treatment, and Suicide
Borgschulte, Mark; Corredor-Waldron, Adriana; Marshall, … - 2018
In this paper we investigate the dual role of supply restrictions and drug treatment in combating the concurrent rise of opioid abuse and suicide in the United States over the last two decades. We find that supply-side interventions decrease suicides in places with strong addiction-help...
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