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Does uninsurance affect the health outcomes of the insured? Evidence from heart attack patients in California
Daysal, N. Meltem - In: Journal of Health Economics 31 (2012) 4, pp. 545-563
limitations constrain my capacity to check how hospitals change their provision of care to insured heart attack patients in …
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The effect of a hospital nurse staffing mandate on patient health outcomes: Evidence from California's minimum staffing regulation
Cook, Andrew; Gaynor, Martin; Stephens Jr, Melvin; … - In: Journal of Health Economics 31 (2012) 2, pp. 340-348
hospital setting. When the law was passed, some hospitals already met the requirements, while others did not. Thus changes in … AB394 had the intended effect of decreasing patient/nurse ratios in hospitals that previously did not meet mandated … patient safety in affected hospitals. …
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The heterogeneity of concentrated prescribing behavior: Theory and evidence from antipsychotics
Berndt, Ernst R.; Gibbons, Robert S.; Kolotilin, Anton; … - In: Journal of Health Economics 40 (2015) C, pp. 26-39
We present two new findings based on annual antipsychotic US prescribing data from IMS Health on 2867 psychiatrists who wrote 50 or more prescriptions in 2007. First, many of these psychiatrists have prescription patterns that are statistically significantly different than random draws from...
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Nurses’ labour supply elasticities: The importance of accounting for extensive margins
Hanel, Barbara; Kalb, Guyonne; Scott, Anthony - In: Journal of Health Economics 33 (2014) C, pp. 94-112
We estimate a multi-sector model of nursing qualification holders’ labour supply in different occupations. A structural approach allows us to model the labour force participation decision, the occupational and shift-type choice, and the decision about hours worked as a joint outcome following...
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Moral hazard and selection among the poor: Evidence from a randomized experiment
Spenkuch, Jörg L. - In: Journal of Health Economics 31 (2012) 1, pp. 72-85
Not only does economic theory predict high-risk individuals to be more likely to purchase insurance, but insurance coverage is also thought to crowd out precautionary activities. In spite of stark theoretical predictions, there is conflicting empirical evidence on adverse selection, and evidence...
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Price elasticity of expenditure across health care services
Duarte, Fabian - In: Journal of Health Economics 31 (2012) 6, pp. 824-841
Policymakers in countries around the world are faced with rising health care costs and are debating ways to reform health care to reduce expenditures. Estimates of price elasticity of expenditure are a key component for predicting expenditures under alternative policies. Using unique...
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Endogenous cost-effectiveness analysis and health care technology adoption
Jena, Anupam B.; Philipson, Tomas J. - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 1, pp. 172-180
Increased health care spending has placed pressure on public and private payers to prioritize spending. Cost-effectiveness (CE) analysis is the main tool used by payers to prioritize coverage of new therapies. We argue that reimbursement based on CE is subject to a form of the “Lucas...
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Competition, gatekeeping, and health care access
Godager, Geir; Iversen, Tor; Ma, Ching-to Albert - In: Journal of Health Economics 39 (2015) C, pp. 159-170
We study gatekeeping physicians’ referrals of patients to specialty care. We derive theoretical results when competition in the physician market intensifies. First, due to competitive pressure, physicians refer patients to specialty care more often. Second, physicians earn more by treating...
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Public employment and political pressure: The case of French hospitals
Clark, Andrew E.; Milcent, Carine - In: Journal of Health Economics 30 (2011) 5, pp. 1103-1112
This paper uses an unusual administrative dataset covering the universe of French hospitals to consider hospital … employment: this is consistently higher in public hospitals than in not-for-profit (NFP) or private hospitals, even controlling … for a number of measures of hospital output. NFP hospitals serve as a benchmark, being very similar to public hospitals …
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Revisiting the relationship between nurse staffing and quality of care in nursing homes: An instrumental variables approach
Lin, Haizhen - In: Journal of Health Economics 37 (2014) C, pp. 13-24
This paper revisits the relationship between nurse staffing and quality of care in nursing homes using an instrumental variables approach. Most prior studies rely on cross-sectional evidence, which renders causal inference problematic and policy recommendations inappropriate. We exploit...
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