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Can parental migration reduce petty corruption in education?
Höckel, Lisa Sofie; Santos Silva, Manuel; Heidland, Tobias - 2015
Educational outcomes of children are highly dependent on household and schoollevel inputs. In poor countries, remittances from migrants can provide additional funds for the education of the left behind. At the same time the absence of migrant parents can affect families’ time allocation...
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Social accountability and service delivery : experimental evidence from Uganda
Fiala, Nathan; Premand, Patrick - 2018
Corruption and mismanagement of public resources can affect the quality of government services and undermine growth … significant information about where corruption and mismanagement is worse. We show evidence that the impacts come in part from … government-led, large-scale social accountability programs can strengthen communities’ ability to address corruption and …
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Regional differences in the efficiency of health production : an artefact of spatial dependence?
Felder, Stefan; Tauchmann, Harald - 2009
The inefficiency of health care provision presents a major health policy concern in Germany. In order to address the issue of efficiency comprehensively - i.e. at the level of the entire system of health care provision rather than individual service providers - empirical analyses are often based...
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P4P, reputation and the reduction of costly overprovision
Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja - 2012
We investigate the effect of reputational motivation on output in a scenario of overprovision of medical treatment. We assume that physicians differ in their degree of altruism, enjoy being perceived as good but dislike being perceived as greedy. We show that better reputational motivation...
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Nursing home prices and quality of care : evidence from administrative data
Reichert, Arndt R.; Stroka, Magdalena A. - 2014
There is widespread concern about the quality of care in nursing homes. Based on administrative data of a large health insurance fund, we investigate whether nursing home prices affect relevant quality of care indicators at the resident level. Our results indicate a significantly negative price...
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Decomposing differences in health and inequality using quasi-objective health indices
Heger, Dörte - 2016
People in Canada and the U.S. often make claims regarding whose country has a better health system. Several researchers have attempted to address this question by analysing subjective health in the two countries, thus assuming a common definition of “good” health. Using data from the Joint...
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The effects of competition on medical service provision
Brosig-Koch, Jeannette; Hehenkamp, Burkhard; Kokot, Johanna - 2016
We explore how competition between physicians affects medical service provision. Previous research has shown that, without competition, physicians deviate from patient-optimal treatment under payment systems like capitation and fee-for-service. While competition might reduce these distortions,...
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Life expectancy and mother-baby interventions : evidence from a historical trial
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - 2014
This paper investigates the potential of maternal and infant health programs to improve the life expectancy of women and children. We study a program trialed 1931-33 in seven Swedish medical districts, assembling individual data from parish records and aggregate data from annual reports of...
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Altruism heterogeneity and quality competition among healthcare providers
Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja - 2014
New empirical evidence shows substantial heterogeneity in the altruism of healthcare providers. Spurred by this evidence, we build a spatial quality competition model with altruism heterogeneity. We find that more altruistic healthcare providers supply relatively higher quality levels and...
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How do non-monetary performance incentives for physicians affect the quality of medical care? : a laboratory experiment ; conference paper
Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja; Krieger, Miriam - 2014
In recent years, several countries have introduced non-monetary performance incentives for health care providers to improve the quality of medical care. Evidence on the effect of non-monetary feedback incentives, predominantly in the form of public quality reporting, on the quality of medical...
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