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Do Primary Healthcare Facilities in More Remote Areas Provide More Medical Services? Spatial Evidence from Rural Western China
Shen, Chi; Lai, Sha; Deng, Qiwei; Cao, Dan; Zhao, Dantong; … - 2023
Primary healthcare institutions (PHIs) in China have experienced a sizable decline in medical services in recent years. Despite the large regional disparities in China, there is a lack of evidence on the differential patterns of medical services offered by PHIs, especially from a spatial...
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How Do Low-Income Enrollees in the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces Respond to Cost-Sharing?
Lavetti, Kurt - 2019
The ACA requires insurers to provide cost-sharing reductions (CSRs) to low-income consumers on the marketplaces. We link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy-driven differences in the value of CSRs that are solely...
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Copayments in the German Health System : Does it Work?
Augurzky, Boris - 2006
This paper examines the effect of copayments on doctor visits using the German health care reform of 2004 as a natural experiment. In January 2004, copayments of 10 euros for the first doctor visit in each quarter have been introduced for all adults in the statutory health insurance. Individuals...
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Spillover Effects of Early-Life Medical Interventions
Breining, Sanni Nørgaard - 2015
We investigate the spillover effects of early-life medical treatments on the siblings of treated children. We use a regression discontinuity design that exploits changes in medical treatments across the very low birth weight (VLBW) cutoff. Using administrative data from Denmark, we first confirm...
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Can Regional Decentralisation Shift Health Care Preferences?
Costa-Font, Joan; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2022
Uniform health care delivered by a mainstream public insurer â⠬â such as the National Health Service (NHS), seldom satisfies heterogeneous demands for care, and some unsatisfied share of the population either use private health care, or purchase private insurance (PHI). One potential...
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Can Regional Decentralisation Shift Health Care Preferences?
Costa-Font, Joan - 2017
Uniform health care delivered by a mainstream public insurer – such as the National Health Service (NHS), seldom satisfies heterogeneous demands for care, and some unsatisfied share of the population either use private health care, or purchase private insurance (PHI). One potential mechanism...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942108
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Fiscal Decentralization and Development : How Crucial is Local Politics?
Pal, Sarmistha - 2010
Does fiscal decentralization in a politically decentralized less developed country help strengthen democratic … institutions at the grass root level? And is the impact of such decentralization on local politics important in determining local … development? Our study on Indonesia suggests that fiscal decentralization enhanced free and fair local elections, though the …
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Do Fiscal and Political Decentralization Raise Students' Performance? A Cross-Country Analysis
Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2012
exists a tendency towards decentralization in many developed and developing countries. Using micro data from the Programme … political decentralization on student performance in the areas of mathematics, reading skills and science. We observe that … fiscal decentralization exerts an unequivocal positive effect on students' outcomes in all areas, while the effect of …
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Decentralization, Happiness and the Perception of Institutions
Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2011
,000 observations of individuals living in 29 European countries. Our results reveal that political and fiscal decentralization have a … positive and significant effect on individuals' overall happiness. Fiscal decentralization also exerts a significant effect on … effect of political decentralization on these variables is more limited. The results show that citizens seem to be happier …
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Another Day, Another Visit : Impact of Arkansas' Mandatory Waiting Period for Women Seeking an Abortion by Demographic Groups
Altındaǧ, Onur; Joyce, Theodore J. - 2022
Twenty-six states require that women seeking an abortion wait between 18 and 72 hours after receipt of counseling before the abortion can be completed. Thirteen states require that the counseling be given in person necessitating at least two visits to the provider. In April of 2015, Arkansas...
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