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Fichera, Eleonora; Sutton, Matt - In: Journal of Health Economics 30 (2011) 6, pp. 1164-1173

of lipid-lowering drugs, which increased substantially over this period, is used as the measure of State investment … smoking cessation advice. We find that unobservable characteristics affecting the prescription of drugs are positively … indicate that prescription of lipid-lowering drugs to individuals with cardiovascular disease increases the probability of …

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Hopping on the Methadone Bus

Lippert, Steffen; Schumacher, Christoph - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper investigates the impact of a 'free drug program' on the market equilibrium of drugs. We introduce a …

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Temporary use authorizations : the economic and clinical future of drugs used in the french compassionate program

Sinègre, Martine; Le Pen, Claude; Parent de Curzon, Olivier - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011

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The Impact of Private Hospital Insurance on Utilization of Hospital Care in Australia: Evidence from the National Health Survey

Eldridge, Damien; Koc, Catagay; Onur, Ilke; Velamuri, … - Department of Economics and Finance, La Trobe Business … - 2011

We use the 2004-'05 wave of the Australian National Health Survey to estimate the impact of private hospital insurance on the utilization of hospital care services in Australia. We employ the two-stage residual inclusion approach (2SRI) to account for the endogeneity of supplementary private...

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The Impact of Private Hospital Insurance on the Utilization of Hospital Care In Australia

Eldridge, Damien S.; Onur, Ilke; Velamuri, Malathi; … - Department of Economics and Finance, La Trobe Business … - 2013

We use the 2004-'05 wave of the Australian National Health Survey to estimate the impact of private hospital insurance on the propensity for hospitalization as a private patient. We employ instrumental-variable methods to account for the endogeneity of supplementary private hospital insurance...

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Double coverage and demand for health care: Evidence from quantile regression

S, Moreira; P, Pita Barros - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2009

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Health Care Reform and the Number of Doctor Visits - An Econometric Analysis

Winkelmann, Rainer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

The paper evaluates the German health care reform of 1997, using the individual number of doctor visits as outcome measure. A new econometric model, the Probit-Poisson-log-normal model with correlated errors, describes the data better than existing count data models. Moreover, it has an...

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Health Care Reform and the Number of Doctor Visits - An Econometric Analysis

Winkelmann, Rainer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

The Paper evaluates the German health care reform of 1997, using the individual number of doctor visits as outcome measure. A new econometric model, the Probit-Poisson-log-normal model with correlated errors, describes the data better than existing count data models. Moreover, it has an...

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Body Weight and Academic Performance: Gender and Peer Effects

BARONE, Adriana; NESE, Annamaria - Centro di Economia del Lavoro e di Politica Economica … - 2014

Taking into account the economic consequences of obesity highlighted in literature (Cawley, 2004), this study investigates the association between overweight and skill attainment at the university of Salerno in Italy, with particular focus on gender differences. Our findings indicate a...

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Logistic Regression for Extremely Rare Events: The Case of School Shootings

Westphal, Christian - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2013

School shootings are often used in public policy debate as a justification for increased regulation, based on qualitative arguments. However, to date, no effort has been made to find valid quantitative evidence for the claims bolstering the regulation recommendations. In defense of this absence...

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