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To Charge or Not to Charge: Evidence from a Health Products Experiment in Uganda
Fischer, Greg; Karlan, Dean S.; McConnell, Margaret; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
comparison effect, decrease subsequent demand. This tension is particularly important for the distribution of health products in … Northern Uganda in which three health products differing in their scope for learning were initially offered either for free or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083717
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Free to Choose? Reform and Demand Response in the English National Health Service
Gaynor, Martin; Propper, Carol; Seiler, Stephan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
The impacts of choice in public services are controversial. We exploit a reform in the English National Health Service …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083844
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Survey Instruments and the Reports of Consumption Expenditures: Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Surveys
Battistin, Erich; Padula, Mario - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper provides evidence on the relevance of the collection mode for the analysis of consumption data for the United States using complementary data sets from the Consumer Expenditure Surveys (CEX). We first show that population figures from consumption reports obtained with diaries markedly...
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Average-cost Pricing and Dynamic Selection Incentives in the Hospital Sector
Kifmann, Mathias; Siciliani, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
This study investigates hospitals’ dynamic incentives to select patients when hospitals are remunerated according to a prospective payment system of the DRG type. Given that prices typically reflect past average costs, we use a discrete-time dynamic framework. Patients differ in severity...
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Incentive Compatible Reimbursement Schemes for Physicians
Emons, Winand - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We consider physicians with fixed capacity levels. If a physician's capacity exceeds demand, she may have an incentive to overtreat, i.e., she may provide unnecessary treatments to use up idle capacity. By contrast, with excess demand she may undertreat, i.e., she may not provide necessary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468555
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Investments in Pharmaceuticals Before and After TRIPS
Kyle, Margaret K; McGahan, Anita M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper addresses the relationship between patent protection and investment in the development of new pharmaceutical treatments. The TRIPS Agreement, which specifies minimum levels of intellectual property protection for countries in the World Trade Organization, has increased levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002387
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Innovations in Health Care Financing. Proceedings of a World Bank COnference, March 10-11, 1997
Schieber, G.J. - World Bank Group - 1997
This volume contains thirteen papers prepared for the World Bank Conference on Innovations in Health Care Financing … for financing health care systems in developing countries. …
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Public and Private Roles in Health.
Musgrove, P. - World Bank Group - 1996
); and failings peculiar to insurance markets for health care (where both inefficiency and inequity arise). The insurance …The appropriate role of the state in health is complex both in economic theory and in practice. Theory identifies three … reasons for state action: public goods or services with large externalities (involving efficiency); poverty (involving equity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005638746
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A Survey of Health Reform in Central Asia.
Klugman, J; Schieber, G - World Bank Group - 1996
context of achieving the goals of improving people's health status, maintaining acces and equity, improving efficiency …This paper surveys health reform in the former Soviet countries of Central Asia. Reform efforts are evaluated in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005639189
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Expanding the Welfare System: A Proposal for Reform
Orszag, Mike; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
account (covering education and training), and a health account (covering insurance against sickness and disability). Unlike …, cushioning people against economic risk, ensuring efficient provision of health and education services, providing social safety …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661484