Arbeitspapier
Co-payments for prescription drugs and the demand for doctor visits: Evidence from a natural experiment
The German health care reform of 1997 provides a natural experiment for evaluating the price sensitivity of demand for physicians' services. As a part of the reform, co-payments for prescription drugs were increased step up to 200%. However, certain groups of people were exempted from the increase, providing a natural control group against which the changed demand for physicians' services of the treated, those subject to increased co-payments, can be assessed. The differences-in-differences estimates indicate that increased co-payments reduced the number of doctor visits by about 10% on an average.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 0307
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Analysis of Health Care Markets
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities
- Thema
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co-payment
moral hazard
count data
Poisson regression
differences-indifferences model
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Winkelmann, Rainer
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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University of Zurich, Socioeconomic Institute
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Zurich
- (wann)
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2003
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:21 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Winkelmann, Rainer
- University of Zurich, Socioeconomic Institute
Entstanden
- 2003
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