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This paper uses individual level data to analyze the effect of changes in the compulsory benefit package of the German statutory health insurance scheme on the demand for private supplementary insurance. In particular, we aim at measuring the effect of excluding dentures from the benefit package...
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We investigate the presence of moral hazard and advantageous or adverse selection in a market for supplementary health insurance. For this we specify and estimate dynamic models for health insurance decisions and health care utilization. Estimates of the health care utilization models indicate...
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"Prices in government and employer-sponsored health insurance markets only partially reflect insurers' expected costs of coverage for different enrollees. This can create inefficient distortions when consumers self-select into plans. We develop a simple model to study this problem and estimate...
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Deductibles in health insurance are often regarded as a means to contain health care costs when individuals exhibit moral hazard. However, in the absence of moral hazard, voluntarily chosen deductibles may instead lead to self-selection into different insurance contracts. We use a set of new...
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Diese Studie verfolgt zwei Ziele. Erstens werden die Vergütungsunterschiede zwischen privat versicherten und gesetzlich versicherten Patienten in der ambulanten ärztlichen Versorgung sowohl relativ als auch in absoluten Zahlen quantifiziert. Zweitens wird berechnet, wie hoch die Belastung...
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1. Gegenstand dieser Studie ist eine Analyse der Daten zur HIV-Inzidenz und -Prävalenz in Deutschland. Anlass für die Studie ist zum einen, dass das Robert Koch-Institut die Schätzungen zur HIV-Inzidenz und zur HIV-Prävalenz in 2005 deutlich heraufgesetzt hat; hier soll das Verfahren der...
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