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Where Next for Discrete Choice Health Valuation Exercises?

Flynn, Terry N. - 2016

This paper explores five under-recognised conceptual issues in the use of discrete choice tasks in eliciting a tariff for health and/or quality of life instruments. Its purpose is not to explore econometric and statistical techniques but to offer advice on design and practical matters gleaned...

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Standard and shuffled Halton sequences in a mixed logit model

Staus, Alexander - 2008

Modeling consumer choice in different areas has lead to an increase use of discrete choice models. Probit or Multinomial Logit Models are often the base of further empirical research of consumer choice. In some of these models the equations to solve have no closed-form expression. They include...

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Heterogeneity in general practitioners' preferences for quality improvement programs : a choice experiment and policy simulation in France

Ammi, Mehdi; Peyron, Christine - In: Health economics review 6 (2016) 44, pp. 1-11

Despite increasing popularity, quality improvement programs (QIP) have had modest and variable impacts on enhancing the quality of physician practice. We investigate the heterogeneity of physicians’ preferences as a potential explanation of these mixed results in France, where the national...

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Nonparametric welfare analysis for discrete choice : levels and differences of individual and social welfare

Capéau, Bart; De Sadeleer, Liebrecht; Maes, Sebastiaan; … - 2021

Empirical welfare analyses often impose stringent parametric assumptions on individuals' preferences and neglect … unobserved preference heterogeneity. In this paper, we develop a framework to conduct individual and social welfare analysis for … discrete choice that does not suffer from these drawbacks. We first adapt the broad class of individual welfare measures …

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Birds of a feather flock together: A study of doctor–patient matching

Godager, Geir - In: Journal of Health Economics 31 (2012) 1, pp. 296-305

In this paper we study individuals’ choice of general practitioners (GPs) utilizing revealed preferences data from the introduction of a regular general practitioner scheme in Norway. Having information on relevant travel distances, we compute decision makers’ travel costs associated with...

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Willingness-to-Pay for Alternative Fuel Vehicle Characteristics: A Stated Choice Study for Germany

Madlener, Reinhard; Hackbarth, André - Institut für Future Energy Consumer Needs and Behavior … - 2013

In the light of European energy efficiency and clean air legislations, as well as an ambitious electric mobility goal of the German government, we examine consumer preferences for alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs), based on a Germany-wide discrete choice experiment among 711 potential car buyers....

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Birds of a Feather Flock Together: A Study of Doctor-Patient Matching

Godager, Geir - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2009

In this paper we study individuals' choice of general practitioners (GPs) utilizing revealed preferences data from the introduction of a regular general practitioner scheme in Norway. Having information on relevant travel distances, we compute decision makers' travel costs associated with...

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Child mortality, wealth and education: direct versus indirect effects

Abou-Ali, Hala - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2003

Controlling for the Egyptian household choice of health infrastructure (i.e., sanitation facility and water …

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Dealing with negative marginal utilities in the discrete choice modeling of labor supply

Liégeois, Philippe; Islam, Nizamul - In: Economics Letters 118 (2013) 1, pp. 16-18

In discrete choice labor supply analysis, it is often reasonably expected that utility will increase with income. Yet, analyses based on discrete choice models sometimes mention that, when no restriction is imposed a priori in the optimization program, the monotonicity condition is not fully...

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Validity of discrete-choice experiments : evidence for health risk reduction

Telser, Harry (contributor); Zweifel, Peter (contributor) - 2003 - October 2003, revised: February 2005

There is growing interest in discrete-choice experiment (DCE) as a method to elicit consumers' preferences in the health care sector. Increasingly this method is used to determine willingness to pay (WTP) for health-related goods. However, its external validity in the health care domain has not...

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