Re-evaluating an evaluation study: The case of the German health care reform of 1997

This paper reports on a re-evaluation of the German health care reform of 1997. A previous evaluation found a limited effect of a 4.4 percent reduction of the number of doctor visits in a sample of pharmacy customers. The re-evaluation based on a representative household survey, the German Socio-Economic Panel, yields a much larger effect. The paper uses this case study to discuss the methods and benefits of modern techniques of program evaluation.

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Year of publication:	2003
Authors:	Winkelmann, Rainer
Publisher:	Zurich : University of Zurich, Socioeconomic Institute
Subject:	Wirkungsanalyse \| Nachfrage \| Gesundheitsreform \| Deutschland \| co-payment \| counter-factual \| differences-in-differences \| count data \| Poisson regression

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Series:	Working Paper ; 0311
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	372746853 [GVK] hdl:10419/76167 [Handle]
Classification:	I11 - Analysis of Health Care Markets ; I18 - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health ; C25 - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models
Source:	EconStor

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