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-specific demand versus "primary" or industry-wide demand; 2) impacts drug costs; and 3) impacts competition. Empirical evidence from … suggestive evidence that it may even be mildly pro-competitive. With respect to costs, some studies suggests that consumer … costs. While most of these effects point to potential welfare improvements as a result of pharmaceutical promotion, there is …
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percentile of value added had, on average, shorter length of stay (4.76 vs 5.08 days), lower total costs ($17,811 vs $19,822) and …
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costs as a large number of physicians choose to integrate pharmacies into their practices in order to become exempt from the …
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This paper investigates the effects of expanding public health insurance eligibility for older children. Using data from the National Health Interview Surveys from 1986 to 2005, we first show that although income continues to be an important predictor of children's health status, the importance...
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increased distance raises infant mortality rates and stronger evidence that it increases deaths from unintentional injuries and …
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predict drug response, may impact drug development times, attrition rates, costs, and the future returns to research and … expected drug development costs (via higher probabilities of technical success, shorter clinical development times, and smaller …
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This paper contributes to the literature on the relationship between human capital and organizational performance. We use detailed longitudinal monthly data on nursing units in the Veterans Administration hospital system to identify how the human capital (general, hospital-specific and unit or...
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Economists seeking to improve the efficiency of health care delivery frequently emphasize two issues: the fragmented structure of physician practices and poorly designed physician incentives. This paper analyzes these issues from the perspective of organizational economics. We begin with a brief...
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admission is privately insured, lowering costs for the individual. Despite some crowd-out of charity care for private insurance …
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This paper analyzes the effect of Medicaid eligibility expansions on the health insurance coverage of women giving birth and on the use of prenatal care and infant health, controlling for year and state effects and state-specific trends that may be correlated with expansions in Medicaid...
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