Antonella Bancalari,Pedro Bernal,Pablo Celhay et al.
Antonella Bancalari et al.
The overutilization of costly hospital and emergency care and the underutilization of primary care is considered a key driver of wasteful health spending. We study how a shift toward community-based primary care reshapes care patterns acros...
Reform-induced competition: Evaluating the impact on Swiss pharmacies and total drug costs [0.03%]
改革引发的竞争：评估对瑞士药店和总药品费用的影响
Marc Anderes
Marc Anderes
This paper explores the effect of increased competition on pharmacies induced by a regime change in two Swiss cities allowing physicians to self-dispense drugs. By merging detailed sales and survey data at the pharmacy level, a difference-i...
The effects of wealth shocks on public and private long-term care insurance [0.03%]
财富变动对公共和私人长期护理保险的影响
Joan Costa-Font,Richard G Frank,Nilesh Raut
Joan Costa-Font
The financing of long-term care services and supports (LTSS) relies heavily on self-insurance in the form of housing or financial wealth. Exploiting both local market variation in housing prices and individual-level variation in stock marke...
Housing affordability and domestic violence: The case of San Francisco's rent control policies [0.03%]
住房负担能力与家庭暴力：以旧金山的租金控制政策为例
Eilidh Geddes,Nicole Holz
Eilidh Geddes
Over a third of women in the United States experience intimate partner violence (IPV); existing research demonstrates that household finances are one important driver of such violence. We study the effects of rent control on IPV to develop ...
Accelerating birth timing to access cash transfers? Evidence from households in extreme poverty [0.03%]
提早生育以获取现金转移支付吗？来自极端贫困家庭的证据
Pedro Carneiro,Lucy Kraftman,Imran Rasul et al.
Pedro Carneiro et al.
There has been a sustained rise in cash transfer programs to the poor, and burgeoning interest in interventions promoting early childhood development. We draw together these trends to study whether open enrolment interventions targeting cas...
What happens to population health when the doctors leave? Evidence from the exit of Cuban doctors in Brazil [0.03%]
医生离开对人口健康有什么影响？来自巴西古巴医生离职的证据
Stefan Sliwa Ruiz,Malte Becker,Thomas Hone et al.
Stefan Sliwa Ruiz et al.
This paper studies the effects of a large-scale exit of doctors on population health outcomes, health production inputs, outputs, and health system adaptation in Brazil. Identification exploits the exogenous timing of the Cuban exit from mu...
Has the shortened drug distribution chain cut drug prices? Evidence from the Two-Invoice System in China [0.03%]
中国两票制的证据：药品流通环节缩短能降低药价吗？
Xiaoxi Li,Fanyu Liu,Jianye Yan et al.
Xiaoxi Li et al.
Global concerns over rising drug prices have led to regulatory efforts in the pharmaceutical industry targeting price transparency and distribution efficiency. This study examines the impact of China's Two-Invoice System (TIS), a 2016 refor...
Workforce impacts of subsidised mental healthcare: Evidence on supply, geographic distribution, and earnings [0.03%]
补贴心理健康护理的劳动力影响：关于供应、地域分布和收入的证据
Nicole Black,Anthony Harris,David W Johnston et al.
Nicole Black et al.
To improve access to affordable mental healthcare, Australia introduced a national, publicly-funded program in 2006 to subsidise psychological services, which were previously privately funded. Theory suggests that by increasing demand, subs...
Individualized disability support schemes and their impact on autism diagnoses [0.03%]
个人化的残疾支持计划及其对自闭症诊断的影响
Maathumai Ranjan,Robert Breunig
Maathumai Ranjan
This paper examines the impact of individualized funding for disability supports on autism diagnoses. We identify these effects using the staggered roll out of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), which provides individualized f...
Does telemedicine technology affect prescribing quality in primary care? The case of antibiotics [0.03%]
远程医疗技术会影响初级保健中的处方质量吗？抗生素的案例研究
Daniel Avdic,Johannes S Kunz,Susan J Méndez et al.
Daniel Avdic et al.
We study the impact of telemedicine technology on antibiotic prescription rates using linked administrative data from Australia on physicians and their patients. We classify physicians by their relative use of virtual consultations after th...