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Medicare Part D and its Effect on the Use of Prescription Drugs, Use of Other Health Care Services and Health of the Elderly
Kaestner, Robert - 2010
We examine the effect of gaining prescription drug insurance as a result of Medicare Part D on use of prescription drugs, use of other medical services, and health for a nationally representative sample of Medicare beneficiaries. Given the heightened importance of prescription drugs for those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462642
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The Role of Government Reimbursement in Drug Shortages
Yurukoglu, Ali - 2012
Beginning in the mid-2000s, the incidence of drug shortages rose, especially for generic injectable drugs such as anesthetics and chemotherapy treatments. We examine whether reimbursement changes contributed to the shortages, focusing on a reduction in Medicare Part B reimbursement to providers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460672
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Health Care Centralization : The Health Impacts of Obstetric Unit Closures in the US
Fischer, Stefanie; Royer, Heather; White, Corey D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Over the last few decades, health care services in the United States have become more centralized. We study how the loss of hospital-based obstetric units in over 400 rural counties affect maternal and infant health via a difference-in-differences design. We find that closures lead to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334360
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Physician-Induced Demand : Evidence from China's Drug Price Zero-Markup Policy
Fang, Hanming; Lei, Xiaoyan; Shi, Julie; Yi, Xuejie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We use a natural experiment in China's health care reform, in which the government mandated zero markups for drugs sold …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599288
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Does Health Insurance Coverage Lead to Better Health and Educational Outcomes? Evidence from Rural China
Chen, Yuyu - 2010
Using 2006 China Agricultural Census (CAC), we examine whether the introduction of the New Cooperative Medical System …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462239
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Impact of China's Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance on Health Care Expenditure and Health Outcomes
Huang, Feng - 2015
At the end of 1998, China launched a government-run mandatory insurance program, the Urban Employee Basic Medical … Insurance (UEBMI), to replace the previous medical insurance system. Using the UEBMI reform in China as a natural experiment … the demand for health-care services. Using data from the 1991-2006 waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457793
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The Largest Insurance Expansion in History : Saving One Million Lives Per Year in China
Gruber, Jonathan; Lin, Mengyun; Yi, Junjian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) rolled out in China from 2003-2008 provided insurance to 800 million rural … in life expectancy in China over this period. We confirm these mortality effects using micro-data on mortality, other …
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The Demand for Medical Care in Urban China
Mocan, H. Naci - 2000
China. It uses a data set that consists of detailed characteristics of 6407 urban households, a continuous measure of health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471094
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Judicial Politics and Sentencing Decisions
Cohen, Alma - 2018
This paper investigates whether judge political affiliation contributes to racial and gender disparities in sentencing using data on over 500,000 federal defendants linked to sentencing judge. Exploiting random case assignment, we find that Republican-appointed judges sentence black defendants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453103
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Using Audit Studies to Test for Physician Induced Demand : The Case of Antibiotic Abuse in China
Currie, Janet - 2012
all of these treatments reduce antibiotics prescriptions, suggesting that antibiotics abuse in China is not driven by …
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