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The Changing Role of Government in Financing Health Care : An International Perspective
Stabile, Mark - 2013
This paper explores the changing role of government involvement in health care financing policy outside the United States. It provides a review of the economics literature in this area to understand the implications of recent policy changes on efficiency, costs and quality. Our review reveals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459221
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Entry, Exit, and the Determinants of Market Structure
Dunne, Timothy - 2009
structure and long-run firm values for two U.S. service industries, dentists and chiropractors. We find that entry costs faced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463337
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Equilibrium effects of public goods : The impact of community water fluoridation on dentists
Ho, Katherine - 2009
within-county dentists relative to physicians in the years surrounding the change in fluoridation status. We find a …-market dental supply, suggesting that dentists responded to the demand shock by moving from fluoridated areas to close-by markets …. Further analysis suggests that some dentists may have retrained as specialists rather than moving geographically. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463594
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Battles Among Licensed Occupations : Analyzing Government Regulations on Labor Market Outcomes for Dentists and Hygienists
Kleiner, Morris M. - 2010
who can do the tasks that are required for the consumer. In this study, we examine dentists and dental hygienists, who are … hygienists' activities by dentists. Since there are elements of monopsony in the market we examine, we use the model as a guide … that dentists in those states have lower earnings and slower employment growth. Several sensitivity and falsification tests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462097
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The Economics of the Public Option : Evidence from Local Pharmaceutical Markets
Atal, Juan Pablo; Cuesta, José Ignacio; González, Felipe - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study the effects of competition by state-owned firms, leveraging the decentralized entry of public pharmacies to local markets in Chile. Public pharmacies sell the same drugs at a third of private pharmacy prices, because of stronger upstream bargaining and market power in the private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477271
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Health Care Spending Growth Has Slowed : Will the Bend in the Curve Continue?
Smith, Sheila D.; Newhouse, Joseph P.; Cuckler, Gigi A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Over 2009-2019 the seemingly inexorable rise in health care's share of GDP markedly slowed, both in the US and elsewhere. To address whether this slowdown represents a reduced steady-state growth rate or just a temporary pause we specify and estimate a decomposition of health care spending...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477274
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Monitoring for Waste : Evidence from Medicare Audits
Shi, Maggie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper examines the tradeoffs of monitoring for wasteful public spending. By penalizing unnecessary spending, monitoring improves the quality of public expenditure and incentivizes firms to invest in compliance technology. I study a large Medicare program that monitored for unnecessary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337803
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Universalizing the Access to Long-term Care : Evidence from Spain
Costa-Font, Joan; Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; Vilaplana … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Spain together with Scotland are two countries that exhibit the largest expansions in long term care (LTC) in the last two decades, universalizing subsidies and supports. This paper is part of a global effort to provide a snapshot of the trends in LTC use and access, as well as the financing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014436956
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Long-term care in England
Banks, James; French, Eric; McCauley, Jeremy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper describes the state of Long-Term Care (LTC) in England, which is facing increasing strain due to population aging. We piece together microeconomic and aggregate data in order to give an overview of the demand and supply of LTC in England in a way that facilitates comparisons with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014436957
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Long-term Care in Japan
Fu, Rong; Iizuka, Toshiaki; Noguchi, Haruko - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Japan, renowned for its significantly aged population, presents a distinctive landscape in elderly care. Notably, there exists no apparent correlation between the economic well-being of the elderly and the limitations they experience in Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) and Instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014436960