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Forecasting with a Panel Tobit Model
Liu, Laura - 2019
We use a dynamic panel Tobit model with heteroskedasticity to generate point, set, and density forecasts for a large … and residential real estate loans, comparing various versions of the panel Tobit model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480513
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The Economic Impacts of the Tobacco Settlement
Cutler, David M. - 2000
whether it was a move toward economic efficiency using data from Massachusetts. Medicaid spending will fall, but only a modest … amount ($0.1 billion). The efficiency issue turns mainly on the treatment of health benefits from reduced smoking induced by … the settlement. We conclude that the settlement was a move towards economic efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470990
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Does Public Insurance Improve the Efficiency of Medical Care? Medicaid Expansions and Child Hospitalizations
Dafny, Leemore - 2000
One of the benefits commonly claimed for expanded public health insurance is improved efficiency of medical care …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471220
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How Much is Enough? Efficiency and Medicare Spending in the Last Six Months of Life
Skinner, Jonathan - 1998
efficiency of health care? In this paper, we used Medicare claims data to document the extent of these variations across 306 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472291
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The Effect of Managed Care on Health Care Providers
Baker, Laurence C. - 1997
the number and types of health care providers and their efficiency. By influencing providers, managed care may change the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472831
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Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient?
Garber, Alan M. - 2008
The U.S. health system has been described as the most competitive, heterogeneous, inefficient, fragmented, and advanced system of care in the world. In this paper, we consider two questions: First, is the U.S. health care system productively efficient relative to other wealthy countries, in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464374
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The Pragmatist's Guide to Comparative Effectiveness Research
Chandra, Amitabh - 2011
All developed countries have been struggling with a trend toward health care absorbing an ever-larger fraction of government and private budgets. Adopting any treatment that improves health outcomes, no matter what the cost, can worsen allocative inefficiency by paying dearly for small health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461668
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Negative Tests and the Efficiency of Medical Care : What Determines Heterogeneity in Imaging Behavior?
Abaluck, Jason - 2014
We develop a model of the efficiency of medical testing based on rates of negative CT scans for pulmonary embolism. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458708
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Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient? Evidence from Prescription Drugs
Kyle, Margaret - 2017
Alan Garber and Jonathan Skinner (2008) famously conjectured that the US health care system was "uniquely inefficient" relative to other countries. We test this idea using cross-country data on prescription drug sales newly linked with an arguably objective measure of relative therapeutic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455612
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Is American Pet Health Care (Also) Uniquely Inefficient?
Einav, Liran - 2016
We document four similarities between American human healthcare and American pet care: (i) rapid growth in spending as a share of GDP over the last two decades; (ii) strong income-spending gradient; (iii) rapid growth in the employment of healthcare providers; and (iv) similar propensity for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456011