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More Hospital Choices, More C-Sections: Evidence from Chile
de Elejalde, Ramiro; Giolito, Eugenio - 2019
In this paper, we study the effect on cesarean rates of a policy change in Chile that decreased the cost of delivery at private hospitals for women with public health insurance. Using a difference-in-differences (DID) approach based on the eligibility conditions for this benefit, we find that in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005998
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An Apple a Day? Adult Food Stamp Eligibility and Health Care Utilization Among Immigrants
East, Chloe N.; Friedson, Andrew I. - 2018
In this study, we document the effect of Food Stamp access on adult health care utilization. While Food Stamps is one of the largest safety net programs in the U.S. today, the universal nature of the program across geographic areas and over time limits the potential for quasi-experimental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873449
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The Right to Health and the Health Effects of Denials
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Fernandez Sierra, Manuel - 2021
We estimate the health costs of supply-side barriers to accessing medical care. The setting is Colombia, where citizens have a constitutional right to health care, but insurance companies that manage delivery impose restrictions on access. We use administrative data on judicial claims for health...
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Geographic Variation in Inpatient Care Utilization, Outcomes and Costs for Dementia Patients in China
Lin, Zhuoer; Ba, Fang; Allore, Heather; Liu, Gordon G.; … - 2022
Dementia leads public health issue worldwide. China has the largest population of adults living with dementia in the world, imposing increasing burdens on the public health and healthcare systems. Despite improved access to health services, inadequate and uneven dementia management remains...
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Trust and Health Care-Seeking Behavior
Darden, Michael E.; Macis, Mario - 2024
We present results from a nationally representative survey of American adults, guided by a simple theoretical model expressing health care-seeking behavior as a function of economic and behavioral fundamentals and highlighting the role of trust. We report several findings. First, we document a...
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The Shape of Hiring and Separation Costs
Michaud, Marie-Laure; Kramarz, Francis - 2004
In this article, we estimate the structure of costs of hiring, terminating, and retiring employees in France. We use a representative panel data set of French establishments that contains direct measures of these various costs as well as measures of entries and exits for the years 1992 and 1996....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261918
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Microeconomic Evidence of Creative Destruction in Industrial and Developing Countries
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Haltiwanger, John; Scarpetta, Stefano - 2004
time effects. All countries display a massive reallocation of resources, with the entry and exit of many firms in all … market contestability. There are also large differences across groups of countries. While entry and exit rates are fairly … similar across industrial countries, post entry performance differs markedly between Europe and the U.S., a potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271755
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Entry, Exit and Productivity: Empirical Results for German Manufacturing Industries
Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
1992): (H1) Firms that exit in year t were in t-1 less productive than firms that continue to produce in t. (H2) Firms that … enter in year t are less productive than incumbent firms in year t. (H3) Surviving firms from an entry cohort were more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233870
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Microeconomic Evidence of Creative Destruction in Industrial and Developing Countries
Bartelsman, Eric; Haltiwanger, John; Scarpetta, Stefano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
time effects. All countries display a massive reallocation of resources, with the entry and exit of many firms in all … market contestability. There are also large differences across groups of countries. While entry and exit rates are fairly … similar across industrial countries, post entry performance differs markedly between Europe and the U.S., a potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703134
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The Shape of Hiring and Separation Costs
Kramarz, Francis; Michaud, Marie-Laure - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
In this article, we estimate the structure of costs of hiring, terminating, and retiring employees in France. We use a representative panel data set of French establishments that contains direct measures of these various costs as well as measures of entries and exits for the years 1992 and 1996....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822725