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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...

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Physician dispensing and the choice between generic and brand-name drugs: Do margins affect choice?

Rischatsch, Maurus; Trottmann, Maria - 2009

prescribing behavior between physician which gain income from prescribing a specific drug and their colleagues which prescribe the … analyze the prescribing behavior of Swiss physicians using cross-sectional data between 2005 and 2007 for three important … agents. The results support our hypothesis that dispensing physicians have a higher probability of prescribing the drug with …

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A model of economic activity in San Francisco during the 1918 influenza epidemic

Velde, François R. - 2022

I jointly use daily data on deaths and public transportation ridership in San Francisco in 1918-19 to estimate a model in which agents choose their level of economic activity based on perceived infection risk, modeled as a function of current and lagged infections or deaths. Agents' choices in...

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Old boys' network in general practitioner's referral behavior

Hackl, Franz; Hummer, Michael; Pruckner, Gerald - 2013

We analyzed the impact of social networks on general practitioners' (GPs) referral behavior based on administrative panel data from 2,684,273 referrals to resident specialists made between 1998 and 2007. To construct estimated social networks, we used information on the doctors' place and time...

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Mismeasurement in pay-for-performance: Evidence from an intervention to reduce health care spending in China

Wu, Bingxiao - 2014

inducement hypothesis as physicians in China may receive under-the-counter commission for prescribing certain drugs. I also find …

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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...

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A moving target: Universal access to healthcare services in Latin America and the Caribbean

Savedoff, William D. - 2009

Healthcare services are more widespread in Latin America and the Caribbean today than 50 years ago, yet this availability is not necessarily reflected in popular perceptions. This study documents the expansion of healthcare services in the Region in terms of medically-trained professionals,...

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Does physician pay affect procedure choice and patient health? Evidence from medicaid C-section use

Alexander, Diane - 2017

I investigate the relationship between physician pay, C-section use, and infant health, using vital statistics data and newly collected data on Medicaid payments to physicians. First, I confirm past results - when Medicaid pays doctors relatively more for C-sections, they perform them more...

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Closing the gap: The impact of the medicaid primary care rate increase on access and health

Alexander, Diane; Schnell, Molly - 2017

The difficulties that Medicaid beneficiaries face accessing medical care are often attributed to the program's low reimbursement rates relative to other payers. There is little evidence, however, as to the actual effects of Medicaid doctor payment rates on access and health outcomes for...

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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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