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| Title: | | Health Care Reform and the Number of Doctor Visits - An Econometric Analysis  |
| Authors: | | Winkelmann, Rainer |
| Issue Date: | | 2001 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion paper series 317 |
| 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. |
| Subjects: | | Co-payment moral hazard count data probit-Poisson-log-normal model |
| JEL: | | I18 C25 I11 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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