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Testing for ethnic discrimination in outpatient health care: evidence from a field experiment in Germany

Halla, Martin; Kah, Christopher; Sausgruber, Rupert - 2021

To test for ethnic discrimination in access to outpatient health care services, we carry out an email-correspondence study in Germany. We approach 3,224 physician offices in the 79 largest cities in Germany with fictitious appointment requests and randomized patients' characteristics. We find...

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Testing for ethnic discrimination in outpatient health care: evidence from a field experiment in Germany

Halla, Martin; Kah, Christopher; Sausgruber, Rupert - 2021

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Audit rates and compliance : a field experiment in long-term care

Lindeboom, Maarten; Klaauw, Bas van der; Vriend, Sandra - 2014

We provide evidence from a large-scale field experiment on the causal effects of audit rules on compliance in a market …-post auditing. Our results do not show significant effects of variations in random audit rates and switching to a conditional audit … care providers differing in size or hospital status. Our preferred explanation for the lack of audit effects is the absence …

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Audit Rates and Compliance : A Field Experiment in Long-Term Care

Lindeboom, Maarten; Klaauw, Bas van der; Vriend, Sandra - 2014

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014147416

Social Preferences and Economic Decision-Making in the Wake of COVID-19 : Experimental Evidence from China

Lohmann, Paul; Gsottbauer, Elisabeth; You, Jing; … - 2021

We systematically examine the acute impact of exposure to a public health crisis on multiple dimensions of economic decision making and social preferences using unique experimental panel data collected just before and immediately after the outbreak of COVID-19 in China. Exploiting the...

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Permanent instability of preferences after COVID-19 crisis : a natural experiment from urban Burkina Faso

Boutin, Delphine; Petifour, Laurene; Megzari, Haris - 2023

The salience of the first Covid-19 crisis over a well-identified period makes it an unexpected and abrupt change in the environment. This study uses the onset of the Covid-19 crisis to empirically examine whether risk and time preferences change in response to this exogenous shock, and whether...

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The impact of physician-patient gender match on healthcare quality : an experiment in China

Si, Yafei; Chen, Gang; Zhou, Zhongliang; Yip, Winnie C.; … - 2025

Despite growing evidence of gender disparities in healthcare utilization and health outcomes, there is a lack of understanding of what may drive such differences. We present novel evidence on the impact of physician-patient gender match on healthcare quality using the standardized patients (SPs)...

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The impact of physician-patient gender match on healthcare quality : an experiment in China

Si, Yafei; Chen, Gang; Zhou, Zhongliang; Yip, Winnie C.; … - 2025

There is a lack of understanding of what may drive gender disparities in healthcare utilization and outcomes. We present novel evidence on the impact of physician-patient gender match on healthcare quality using standardized patients (SPs) in an experiment, and collected interactions between SPs...

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Stigma and misconceptions in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic: a field experiment in India

Islam, Asad; Pakrashi, Debayan; Vlassopoulos, Michael; … - 2020

A hidden cost of the COVID-19 pandemic is the stigma associated with the disease for those infected and groups that are considered as more likely to be infected. This paper examines whether the provision of accurate and focused information about COVID-19 from a reliable source can reduce...

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Does patient behaviour drive physicians to practice defensive medicine? : evidence from a video experiment

Daniels, Lotte; Marneffe, Wim - In: Health economics review 13 (2023) 1, pp. 1-13

Objective By manipulating patients' critical attitude in a video experiment, we examined whether physicians are more intended to perform defensive acts because of a higher perceived liability risk in Belgium. Methods We assigned 85 practicing gynaecologists/obstetricians and orthopaedists...

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