@techreport{Winkelmann2001Health,
abstract = {The paper evaluates the German health care reform of 1997, using the individual number of
doctor visits as outcome measure. A new econometric model, the Probit-Poisson-log-normal
model with correlated errors, describes the data better than existing count data models.
Moreover, it has an attractive structural interpretation, as it allows the reforms to have a
different effect at different parts of the distribution. The overall effect of the reform was a 10
percent reduction in the number of doctor visits. The effect was much larger in the lower part
of the distribution than in the upper part.},
author = {Rainer Winkelmann},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {I18; C25; I11; 330; Co-payment; moral hazard; count data; probit-Poisson-log-normal model; Gesundheitsreform; \"{A}rzte; Moral Hazard; Probit-Modell; Deutschland},
language = {eng},
number = {317},
title = {Health Care Reform and the Number of Doctor Visits - An Econometric Analysis},
type = {IZA Discussion paper series},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/21173},
year = {2001}
}
