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Health care reform and the number of doctor visits: An econometric analysis
Winkelmann, Rainer - 2002
The paper evaluates the German health care reform of 1997, using the individual number of doctor visits as outcome measure and data from the German Socio- Economic Panel for the years 1995-1999. A number of modified count data models allow to estimate the effect of the reform in different parts...
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How did the German health care reform of 1997 change the distribution of the demand for health services?
Winkelmann, Rainer - 2003
I consider the problem of evaluating the effect of a health care reform on the demand for doctor visits when the effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315524
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Re-evaluating an evaluation study: The case of the German health care reform of 1997
Winkelmann, Rainer - 2003
This paper reports on a re-evaluation of the German health care reform of 1997. A previous evaluation found a limited effect of a 4.4 percent reduction of the number of doctor visits in a sample of pharmacy customers. The re-evaluation based on a representative household survey, the German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315525
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Co-payments for prescription drugs and the demand for doctor visits: Evidence from a natural experiment
Winkelmann, Rainer - 2003
The German health care reform of 1997 provides a natural experiment for evaluating the price sensitivity of demand for … physicians' services. As a part of the reform, co-payments for prescription drugs were increased step up to 200%. However …, certain groups of people were exempted from the increase, providing a natural control group against which the changed demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315599
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Cost sharing in health insurance: An instrument for risk selection?
Becker, Karolin; Zweifel, Peter - 2005
select a policy with a high deductible. Compensation demanded for voluntarily accepting an increase in the annual deductible … also varies with socioeconomic characteristics and increases with the current level of deductible, as predicted by theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315523
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Consumer resistance against regulation: The case of health care
Zweifel, Peter; Telser, Harry; Vaterlaus, Stephan - 2005
Regulation fostering Managed Care alternatives in health insurance is spreading. This work reports on an experiment designed to measure the amounts of compensation asked by the Swiss population (in terms of reduced premiums) for Managed-Care type restrictions in the provision of health care. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315556
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Preferences for health insurance in Germany and the Netherlands: A tale of two countries
Zweifel, Peter; Leukert, Karolin; Berner, Stephanie - 2010
This contribution contains an international comparison of preferences. Using two Discrete Choice Experiments (DCE), it measures willingness to pay for health insurance attributes in Germany and the Netherlands. Since the Dutch DCE was carried out right after the 2006 health reform, which made...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315539
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Validity of discrete-choice experiments: Evidence for health risk reduction
Telser, Harry; Zweifel, Peter - 2005
There is growing interest in discrete-choice experiment (DCE) as a method to elicit consumers' preferences in the health care sector. Increasingly this method is used to determine willingness to pay (WTP) for health-related goods. However, its external validity in the health care domain has not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315568
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Mismeasurement in pay-for-performance: Evidence from an intervention to reduce health care spending in China
Wu, Bingxiao - 2014
This paper examines how physicians in China respond to a pay-for-performance scheme that mismeasures performance. In … to decrease drug expenditure. Using a unique patient-level data from a large Chinese hospital, I find that physicians … inducement hypothesis as physicians in China may receive under-the-counter commission for prescribing certain drugs. I also find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396831
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Information presentation and consumer choice: Evidence from Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) success rates reports
Wu, Bingxiao - 2014
Prior literature on quality disclosure focuses on whether information provision affects consumer choice. This paper extends this research and explores whether information presentation affects consumer responsiveness in the context of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) reports. I find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396834