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Do Optional Deductibles Reduce the Number of Doctor Visits? Empirical Evidence with German Data

Schmitz, Hendrik - 2008

determine the price elasticity of demand for health care. A latent class approach that takes into account the panel structure of …

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Assessing the Effectiveness of Health Care Cost Containment Measures

Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2011

Using SOEP panel data and difference-in-differences methods, this study is the first to empirically evaluate the effectiveness of four different health care cost containment measures within an integrated framework. The four measures investigated were introduced in Germany in 1997 to reduce moral...

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In Absolute or Relative Terms? How Framing Prices Affects the Consumer Price Sensitivity of Health Plan Choice

Schmitz, Hendrik; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2011

This paper provides field evidence on (a) how price framing affects consumers' decision to switch health insurance … plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be influenced by policymakers through simple … health insurance companies to express price differences between health plans in absolute Euro values rather than percentage …

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Introducing risk adjustment and free health plan choice in employer-based health insurance: Evidence from Germany

Pilny, Adam; Wübker, Ansgar; Ziebarth, Nicolas - 2017

impact on market price dispersion. Moreover, it (b) characterizes health plan switchers and investigates their annual and …

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The effect of private health insurance on self-assessed health status and health satisfaction in Germany

Petilliot, René - 2017

In Germany, private health insurance covers more innovative and costly treatments than public insurance. Moreover, privately insured individuals are treated preferentially by doctors. In this article, I use subjective health data to examine whether these superior features of private insurance...

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How health plan enrollees value prices relative to supplemental benefits and service quality

Bünnings, Christian; Schmitz, Hendrik; Tauchmann, Harald; … - 2015

This paper empirically assesses the relative role of health plan prices, service quality and optional benefits in the decision to choose a health plan. We link representative German SOEP panel data from 2007 to 2010 to (i) health plan service quality indicators, (ii) measures of voluntary...

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