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Moral Hazard and Economies of Scope in Physician Ownership of Complementary Medical Services
Gertler, Paul; Chen, Brian K.; Yang, Chuh-Yuh - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
" policy, similar to the Stark Law in the US, that restricts physician ownership of pharmacies unless they are fully integrated … acute respiratory infections, diabetes, or hypertension. Overall the separating policy was ineffective at controlling drug …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951460
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Equilibrium effects of public goods: The impact of community water fluoridation on dentists
Ho, Kate; Neidell, Matthew - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
In this paper we consider how the dental industry responded to the addition of fluoride to public drinking water. We take advantage of the staggered introduction of fluoridation throughout the country to analyze the changes in numbers of within-county dentists relative to physicians in the years...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025637
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Measuring the Relative Performance of Providers of a Health Service
Ackerberg, Daniel; Riordan, Michael H.; Machado, Matilde P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001
A methodology is developed and applied to compare the performance of publicly funded agencies providing treatment for alcohol abuse in Maine. The methodology estimates a Wiener process that determines the duration of completed treatments, while allowing for agency differences in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005580668
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Does it Matter if Your Health Insurer is For-Profit? Effects of Ownership on Premiums, Insurance Coverage, and Medical Spending
Dafny, Leemore; Ramanarayanan, Subramaniam - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
The majority of private health insurance in the U.S. is administered or issued by for-profit insurers, but little is known about how for-profit status affects outcomes. We find that plausibly exogenous increases in local for-profit market share induced by conversions of Blue Cross and Blue...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821706
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The Effect of Patient Cost Sharing on Utilization, Health, and Risk Protection
Shigeoka, Hitoshi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper exploits a sharp reduction in patient cost sharing at age 70 in Japan, using a regression discontinuity design to examine its effect on utilization, health, and financial risk arising from out-of-pocket expenditures. Due to the national policy, cost sharing is 60-80 percent lower at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969410
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Efficiency versus Equity in the Allocation of Medical Specialty Training Positions in Spain: A Health Policy Simulation Based on a Discrete Choice Model
Harris, Jeffrey E.; López-Valcárcel, Beatriz G.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Background. In Spain's "MIR" system of allocating residency training positions, medical school graduates are ranked according to their performance on a national exam and then sequentially choose from the remaining available training slots. We studied how changes in the MIR system might address...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969452
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To Charge or Not to Charge: Evidence from a Health Products Experiment in Uganda
Karlan, Dean; Fischer, Greg; McConnell, Margaret; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
In a field experiment in Uganda, we find that demand after a free distribution of three health products is lower than after a sale distribution. This contrasts with work on insecticide-treated bed nets, highlighting the importance of product characteristics in determining pricing policy. We put...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950656
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Effects of Pharmaceutical Promotion: A Review and Assessment
Dave, Dhaval M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
-specific demand versus "primary" or industry-wide demand; 2) impacts drug costs; and 3) impacts competition. Empirical evidence from … physician contact, expanding drug treatment, and promoting adherence among existing users. Physician advertising is primarily … and prices is more limited. However, there is no strong evidence that drug promotion deters entry, and there is some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950788
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Specialty drug prices and utilization after loss of U.S. patent exclusivity, 2001-2007
Conti, Rena M.; Berndt, Ernst R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
estimated prices of these drug undergoing LOE fall with generic entry. Second, we estimate reduced form random effects models of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950850
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International Health Economics
Philipson, Tomas; Egan, Mark - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Perhaps because health care is a local service sector, health economists have paid little attention to international linkages between domestic health care economies. However, the growth in domestic health care sectors is often attributed to medical innovations whose returns are earned worldwide....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950973