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For empirical analysis and policy-oriented recommendation, the precise measurement of individual health or well-being is essential. The problem with variables based on questionnaires such as self-assessed health is that the answer may depend on individual reporting behaviour. Moreover, if...
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As in most industrialized countries, the inequality regarding the distribution of house-hold incomes in Germany has steadily increased. By collecting taxes and granting mon-etary transfers, the government tries to affect the personal distribution of incomes. Whereas the supply of redistribution...
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The importance of the physician-patient relationship for the health care market is beyond controversy. Recent work emphasizes a two-sided asymmetric information relationship between physician and patient. In contrast to most work looking only at the physician's perspective, our paper...
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The decision to contact a physician and the decision, how often to contact a physician, are based on different decision makers. We introduce a negative binominal distributed hurdle model that specifies the two stages of the decision process as different stochastic processes, and takes also care...
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Gesundheitsökonomen nehmen Stellung zu den „Eckpunkten zu einer Gesundheitsreform“ der Koalitionsparteien vom 4. Juli 2006.
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Seit dem Krankenversicherungs-Kostendämpfungsgesetz von 1977 wurden 46 größere Gesetze mit über 6.800 Einzelregelungen erlassen mit dem Ziel, die Ausgabensteigerungen im Gesundheitswesen zu begrenzen und den Beitragssatz zu stabilisieren. Die gesetzlichen Eingriffe konnten den Ausgabentrend...
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