Hospital sector choice and support for public hospital care in New Zealand: Results from a labeled discrete choice survey [0.03%]
新西兰住院治疗部门选择及支持公立医院护理情况：一种有标识的选择调查结果分析
Paul Brown,Laura Panattoni,Linda Cameron et al.
Paul Brown et al.
This study uses a discrete choice experiment (DCE) to measure patients' preferences for public and private hospital care in New Zealand. A labeled DCE was administered to 583 members of the general public, with the choice between a public a...
Financial incentives for kidney donation: A comparative case study using synthetic controls [0.03%]
肾脏捐赠的财务激励：使用合成控制法进行比较案例研究
Fırat Bilgel,Brian Galle
Fırat Bilgel
Although many commentators called for increased efforts to incentivize organ donations, theorists and some evidence suggest these efforts will be ineffective. Studies examining the impact of tax incentives generally report zero/negative coe...
The effects of paid maternity leave: Evidence from Temporary Disability Insurance [0.03%]
带薪产假的影响：来自临时残疾保险的证据
Jenna Stearns
Jenna Stearns
This paper investigates the effects of a large-scale paid maternity leave program on birth outcomes in the United States. In 1978, states with Temporary Disability Insurance (TDI) programs were required to start providing wage replacement b...
Heterogeneity and the effect of mental health parity mandates on the labor market [0.03%]
精神卫生福利立法的异质性及其对劳动力市场的影响
Martin Andersen
Martin Andersen
Health insurance benefit mandates are believed to have adverse effects on the labor market, but efforts to document such effects for mental health parity mandates have had limited success. I show that one reason for this failure is that the...
Franz Hackl,Michael Hummer,Gerald J Pruckner
Franz Hackl
We analyzed the impact of social networks on general practitioners' (GPs) referral behavior based on administrative panel data from 2,684,273 referrals to specialists made between 1998 and 2007. For the definition of social networks, we use...
Social security income and the utilization of home care: Evidence from the social security notch [0.03%]
社会保障收入与家庭护理的利用：来自社会保障缺口的证据
Yuping Tsai
Yuping Tsai
This paper exploits Social Security law changes to identify the effect of Social Security income on the use of formal and informal home care by the elderly. Results from an instrumental variables estimation strategy show that as retirement ...
Mandatory labels, taxes and market forces: An empirical evaluation of fat policies [0.03%]
强制标签、征税与市场力量：对反肥胖政策的实证评估
Olivier Allais,Fabrice Etilé,Sébastien Lecocq
Olivier Allais
The public-health community views mandatory Front-of-Pack (FOP) nutrition labels and nutritional taxes as promising tools to control the growth of food-related chronic diseases. This paper uses household scanner data to propose an ex-ante e...
What explains DRG upcoding in neonatology? The roles of financial incentives and infant health [0.03%]
新生儿DRG高分类的原因是什么？财务激励和婴儿健康的作用
Hendrik Jürges,Juliane Köberlein
Hendrik Jürges
We use the introduction of diagnosis related groups (DRGs) in German neonatology to study the determinants of upcoding. Since 2003, reimbursement is based inter alia on birth weight, with substantial discontinuities at eight thresholds. The...
Comparative Study
Journal of health economics. 2015 Sep:43:13-26. DOI:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2015.06.001 2015
American Journal of Health Economics;European Journal of Health Economics;Forum for Health Economics & Policy;Health Economics Policy and Law;Health Econom
American Journal of Health Economics;European Journal of Health Economics;Forum for Health Economics & Policy;Health Economics Policy and Law;Health Econom
Understanding the effect of retirement on health: Mechanisms and heterogeneity [0.03%]
退休对健康的影响：机制和异质性分析
Peter Eibich
Peter Eibich
This paper investigates the mechanisms behind the health effects of retirement. Using a Regression Discontinuity Design to exploit financial incentives in the German pension system for identification, I find that retirement improves subject...