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, higher quality hospitals, increased hospital medical experience, and higher investment in pediatrics can reduce the mortality …
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This study analyses the relation between perceived health status and intertemporal choice. We use data from experiments with real monetary rewards conducted among students in South Africa to estimate risk and time preferences. These experimental data, based on multiple price lists developed by...
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Does medical insurance affect health care demand and in the end contribute to improvements in the health status? Evidence for China for the year 2004, by means of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), shows that health insurance does not affect health care demand in a significant manner....
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, benefits all patients. It enables rich patients to obtain higher quality treatment in the private sector. Because the … altruistic physicians infer that in their absence, NHS patients receive lower treatment quality than private sector patients …
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When public long-term care (LTC) insurance is provided by insurers, they typically lack incentives for purchasing cost-effective LTC. Providing insurers with appropriate incentives for efficiency without jeopardizing access for high-risk individuals requires, among other things, an adequate...
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This paper investigates the effects of health-care spending on mortality rates of heart attack patients. We relate in-hospital deaths to in-hospital end-of-life spending and post-discharge deaths to post-discharge health-care spending. In our analysis, we use detailed administrative data on...
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Does medical insurance affect health care demand and in the end contribute to improvements in the health status? Evidence for China for the year 2004, by means of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), shows that health insurance does not affect health care demand in a significant manner....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012732719
, benefits all patients. It enables rich patients to obtain higher quality treatment in the private sector. Because the … altruistic physicians infer that in their absence, NHS patients receive lower treatment quality than private sector patients …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014053269
damage quality when information is poor. Evidence on whether this fear is well-founded is scarce. We provide evidence using a … research that has relied on indicators of the quality of urgent treatments, we take advantage of the plausible absence of … selection bias in our setting to identify the effect on quality of non-acute hip replacements. Using administrative data on all …
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This paper estimates the effect of job loss on mortality for older male workers with strong labor force attachment. Using Dutch administrative data, we find that job loss due to sudden firm closure increased the probability to die within five years by a sizable 0.60 percentage points....
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