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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

In this paper, I examine the impact of uninsured patients on the in-hospital mortality rate of insured heart attack patients. I employ panel data models using patient discharge and hospital financial data from California (1999–2006). My results indicate that uninsured patients have an...

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Can governments do it better? Merger mania and hospital outcomes in the English NHS

Gaynor, Martin; Laudicella, Mauro; Propper, Carol - In: Journal of Health Economics 31 (2012) 3, pp. 528-543

performance, productivity, waiting times and clinical quality and find little evidence that mergers achieved gains other than a …

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Shipping out instead of shaping up: Rehospitalization from nursing homes as an unintended effect of public reporting

Konetzka, R. Tamara; Polsky, Daniel; Werner, Rachel M. - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 2, pp. 341-352

Public reporting of health care quality has become a popular tool for incenting quality improvement. A fundamental … post-acute setting, where patients must achieve a minimum length of stay to be included in quality measures, selection may …

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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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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 … impact on quality of care, and that there is no evidence of a significant association between nurse aide staffing and quality … endogeneity would lead to an underestimation of how nurse staffing affects quality of care in nursing homes. …

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