The paper estimates the effect of the abolition of user charges for outpatient care (30 CZK/1.2 EUR) in 2009 on the demand for ambulatory doctor visits in the Czech Republic. The r eform a pplied only to children, which enabled us to take the difference-in-differences approach. Children...

The paper estimates the effect of the abolition of user charges for outpatient care (30 CZK/1.2 EUR) in 2009 on the demand for ambulatory doctor visits in the Czech Republic. The reform applied only to children, which enabled us to take the difference-in-differences approach. Children constitute...

The paper estimates the effect of the abolition of user charges for outpatient care (30 CZK/1.2 EUR) in 2009 on the demand for ambulatory doctor visits in the Czech Republic. The r eform a pplied only to children, which enabled us to take the difference-in-differences approach. Children...