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Healthy reviews! Online physician ratings reduce healthcare interruptions
Kummer, Michael E.; Laitenberger, Ulrich; Rich, Cyrus E.; … - 2021
physician. We combine insurance claims data with web-scraped physician reviews and highlight a substantial care-gap resulting …
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Long-term health insurance: Theory meets evidence
Atal, Juan Pablo; Fang, Hanming; Karlsson, Martin; … - 2021
-term health insurance constitutes an alternative to community-rated short-term contracts with an individual mandate. In this paper …, we study the German long-term health insurance (GLTHI) from a life-cycle perspective. The GLTHI is one of the few real …-world long-term health insurance markets. We first present and discuss insurer regulation, premium setting, and the main market …
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Hospital capacity reporting in Germany during COVID-19
Reif, Simon; Schubert, Sabrina - 2023
During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals faced a unique predicament. Hospital care was urgently needed and society took efforts to prevent overwhelming hospitals. However, hospitals in case-based reimbursement schemes faced financial problems because of cancelled elective care visits and...
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How do low-income enrollees in the affordable care act marketplaces respond to cost sharing?
Lavetti, Kurt; DeLeire, Thomas C.; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2023
-side price mechanisms in health insurance design work similarly for low-income and higher-income individuals. We also find that … cost sharing have higher levels of health care spending, controlling for past health care use. We estimate demand … elasticities of total health care spending among this low-income population of approximately -0.12, suggesting that demand …
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Patient versus provider incentives in long-term care
Hackmann, Martin B.; Pohl, R. Vincent; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2023
How do patient and provider incentives affect the provision of long-term care? Our analysis of 551 thousand nursing home stays yields three main insights. First, Medicaid-covered residents prolong their stays instead of transitioning to community-based care due to limited cost-sharing. Second,...
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Variation of learning intensity in late adolescence and the impact on noncognitive skills
Büttner, Bettina; Thiel, Hendrik; Thomsen, Stephan L. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
Despite the interdependence between cognitive and noncognitive skills, empirical studies have shown a longer period of acquisition in life-time for the latter besides relevance for educational and labor market success. Analyzing returns of investments during different periods of life is...
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Targeted advertising in magazine markets
Chandra, Ambarish; Kaiser, Ulrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
We examine the scope and value of targeted advertising in the magazine industry. We use data on reader characteristics at individual media, in contrast to previous work that has needed to infer this information from aggregate data. Our results show a strong relationship between subscriber...
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When the minimum wage bites back: Quantile treatment effects of a sectoral minimum wage in Germany
Gregory, Terry - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
In this study we investigate the minimum wage (MW) effects for a German sub-construction sector where the MW bites extraordinary hard by international standards. Within a quasiexperiment we estimate the Quantile Treatment Effects of the MW on the conditional and unconditional distribution of...
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The impact of R&D subsidies during the crisis
Hud, Martin; Hussinger, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
This study investigates the impact of R&D subsidies on R&D investment during the past financial crisis. We conduct a treatment effects analysis and show that R&D subsidies increased R&D spending among subsidized small and medium sized firms in Germany during the crisis years. In the first crisis...
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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life
den Berg, Gerard J. van; Pinger, Pia R.; Schoch, Johannes - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing …. In this paper we estimate this average causal effect on health outcomes later in life, by applying instrumental variable …
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