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A latent class approach to inequity in health using biomarker data
Carrieri, Vincenzo; Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2019
unobserved type-specific heterogeneity that may lead to either upwardly or downwardly biased estimates of IOp. We apply the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012104239
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Patient Autonomy and Education in Specific Medical Knowledge
Lukas, Daniel - 2011
The asymmetry between the patient as a layman and the physician as an expert is a key element in health economics. However, a change to a higher degree of patient autonomy has taken place. Furthermore, there is a consensus in a positive correlation between general education and productivity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133171
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Trip and mode choice decisions to out-patient health care facilities : a longitudinal analysis
McCarthy, Patrick S. - In: Journal of management science and engineering 7 (2022) 2, pp. 173-196
This paper analyzes the impact of health indicators on an individual's trip and mode choices to out-patient care facilities. The study's focus is an out-patient trip to a health care facility, and the source of data is the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) for 2011, 2013...
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Heterogeneous effects of medical interventions on the health of low-risk newborns
Daysal, N. Meltem; Trandafir, Mircea; Ewijk, Reyn van - 2016
, we find no health benefits from additional treatments for average newborns. However, there is substantial heterogeneity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455287
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Heterogeneity in the persistence of health : evidence from a monthly micro panel
Hoskins, Stephen; Johnston, David; Kunz, Johannes; … - 2024
persistence in these outcomes is the same for every individual. Understanding the extent and drivers of heterogeneity in … overall long-run effects of such interventions. This paper explores individual-level heterogeneity in the persistence of … health outcomes. Using simple regression methods that do not place any restriction on the distribution of the heterogeneity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014535334
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Health, health production and input financing : a theoretical note
Mandal, Biswajit; Chaudhuri, Saswati; Mandal, Arindam - In: Theoretical and applied economics : GAER review 28 (2021) 1/626, pp. 219-230
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012693121
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Heterogeneous effects of a nonlinear price schedule for outpatient care
Farbmacher, Helmut; Ihle, Peter; Schubert, Ingrid; … - 2013
Theoretical considerations suggest that nonlinear health care price schedules have heterogeneous effects on health care demand. In this paper, we develop and apply a finite mixture bivariate probit model to analyze whether there are heterogeneous reactions to the introduction of a nonlinear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212657
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Modelling healthcare demand count data with excessive zeros and overdispersion
Park, Myung Hyun; Kim, Joseph H. T. - In: Global economic review 50 (2021) 4, pp. 358-381
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012694162
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The economic impact of healthcare quality
Helsø, Anne-Line Koch; Pierri, Nicola; Wang, Adelina Yanyue - 2019
We study the costs of hospitalizations on patients' earnings and labor supply, using the universe of hospital admissions in Denmark and full-population tax data. We evaluate the quality of treatment based on its ability to mitigate the labor market consequences of a given diagnosis and propose a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103578
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Shocks to hospital occupancy and mortality : evidence from the 2009 H1N1 pandemic
Gutiérrez, Emilio Fernandez; Rubli, Adrian - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 67 (2021) 9, pp. 5943-5952
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650209