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Do market incentives for hospitals affect health and service utilization? : evidence from PPS-DRG tariffs in Italian regions

Cappellari, Lorenzo; De Paoli, Anna; Turati, Gilberto - 2016

care services. We consider survey data for the years 1993-2007 with information on both individualsÄ perceived health and … their utilization of health care services. Results suggest that the introduction of market incentives via a fixed … with a clearer decrease in the utilization of emergency services. We also find mild evidence of reduced satisfaction with …

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Using fees to reduce bed-blocking : a game between hospitals and care providers

Kverndokk, Snorre; Melberg, Hans Olav - 2016

, we introduce a Stackelberg game where the hospital is the leader and the care institution is the follower. The reform …

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Does your doctor matter? : doctor quality and patient outcomes

Ginja, Rita; Riise Kolstad, Julie; Willage, Barton; … - 2022

We estimate doctor value-added and provide evidence on the distribution of physician quality in an entire country, combining rich population-wide register data with random assignment of patients to general practitioners (GPs). We show that there is substantial variation in the quality of...

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Subsidies, information, and the timing of children's health care in Mali

Sautmann, Anja; Brown, Samuel; Dean, Mark - 2016

We study how healthcare subsidies and improved information affect over- and under-use of primary healthcare in a randomized control trial of 1544 children in Mali. In a dynamic model of healthcare demand, misuse relative to policymaker preferences (here given by WHO care-seeking standards)...

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The urban-rural gap in health care infrastructure : does government ideology matter?

Potrafke, Niklas; Rösel, Felix - 2019

urban-rural gap in public infrastructure. Leftwing governments relocate hospital beds from rural regions. We propose that … leftwing governments do so to gratify their more urban constituencies. In turn, spatial inequalities in hospital infrastructure …

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Regional health care decentralization in unitary states : equal spending, equal satisfaction?

Costa-Font, Joan; Turati, Gilberto - 2016

Does regional decentralization threaten the commitment to regional equality in government outcomes? We attempt to shed light on this question by drawing on unique evidence from the largest European unitary states to have engaged in countrywide health system decentralization: Italy and Spain. We...

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Political agency and public health care : evidence from India

Costa-Font, Joan; Parmar, Divya - 2017

constituents on the use of health care, and specifically maternal and preventive care services. We examine the development of … sanitation committees increases access to several maternal health care and some but not all immunisation services. The effect …

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R&D-driven medical progress, health care costs, and the future of human longevity

Böhm, Sebastian; Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - 2018

In this paper we set up an overlapping generations model of gerontological founded human aging that takes the interaction between R&D-driven medical progress and access to health care into account. We use the model to explore potential futures of human health and longevity. For the baseline...

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Demand shocks, procurement policies, and the nature of medical innovation : evidence from wartime prosthetic device patents

Clemens, Jeffrey; Rogers, Parker - 2020

We analyze wartime prosthetic device patents to investigate how demand and procurement policy can shape medical innovation. We use machine learning tools to develop new data describing the aspects of medical and mechanical innovations that are emphasized in patent documents. Our analysis of...

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Divided we survive? : multi-level governance and policy uncertainty during the first wave of Covid-19

Angelici, Marta; Berta, Paolo; Costa-Font, Joan; … - 2021

emergency hospital admissions, and mortality in the two countries, both at the national and at the regional level. We then …

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