How did the German health care reform of 1997 change the distribution of the demand for health services?

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I consider the problem of evaluating the effect of a health care reform on the demand for doctor visits when the effect is potentially different in different parts of the outcome distribution. Quantile regression is a useful technique for studying such heterogeneous treatment effects. Recent progree has been made to extend such methods to applications with a count dependent variable. An analysis of a 1997 health care reform in Germany shows the benefit of the approach: lower quantiles, such as the 25 percent quantile, fell by substantially larger amounts than what would have been predicted based on Poisson or negative binomial models.

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• Sprache: Englisch

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• Erschienen in: Series: Working Paper ; No. 0314

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: 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: heterogeneous treatment effect ; count data ; quantile regression ; Poisson model ; Gesundheitsreform ; Gesundheitswesen ; Nachfrage ; Deutschland

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Winkelmann, Rainer
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): University of Zurich, Socioeconomic Institute
• (wo): Zurich
• (wann): 2003

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• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/76166
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 20.09.2024, 08:23 MESZ