Germany has a two-tier system of statutory and primary private health insurance. Both insurance types provide fee …-for-service insurance, but chargeable fees for identical services are more than twice as large for privately insured as for statutorily … insured patients. Using German SOEP 2002 data, I analyze the effect of insurance status on the insured's number of doctor …

financial incentives but also with expected treatment costs measured by poor newborn health conditional on weight. This suggests …

financial incentives but also with expected treatment costs measured by poor newborn health conditional on weight. This suggests …

, and newborn health. A corollary of our study is that, for cohorts born after 2002, regression discontinuity designs for … effects of neonatal care on child health based on birth weight classifications are invalid. …

financial incentives but also with expected treatment costs measured by poor newborn health conditional on weight. This suggests …

Germany is one of the few OECD countries with a two-tier system of statutory and primary private health insurance. Both … types of insurance provide fee-for-service insurance, but chargeable fees for identical services are more than twice as … induce demand primarily among the privately insured. Using German SOEP 2002 data, I analyze the effects of insurance status …

Germany is one of the few OECD countries with a two-tier system of statutory and primary private health insurance. Both … types of insurance provide fee-for-service insurance, but chargeable fees for identical services are more than twice as … induce demand primarily among the privately insured. Using German SOEP 2002 data, I analyze the effects of insurance status …

, and newborn health. A corollary of our study is that, for cohorts born after 2002, regression discontinuity designs for … effects of neonatal care on child health based on birth weight classifications are invalid. …

financial incentives but also with expected treatment costs measured by poor newborn health conditional on weight. This suggests …