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| Title: | | Copayments for doctor visits and the probability of visiting a physician - Evidence from a natural experiment  |
| Authors: | | Farbmacher, Helmut |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2010: Ökonomie der Familie - Session: Health Policy: Patients, Doctors, Hospitals D18-V1 |
| Abstract: | | The German health care reform of 2004 imposes a charge of 10 Euro for the first visit to a doctor in each quarter of the year. Exploiting random variation in the interview day of the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study finds a substantial effect of the new fee on the probability of visiting a physician. In addition, the identification strategy makes it possible to disentangle this effect from the influence of the contemporaneous increase of copayments for prescription drugs. This study provides an example where random variation in the interview day can be used to identify causal effects. |
| Subjects: | | health economics copayment response behaviour natural experiment |
| JEL: | | I18 C23 I11 |
| Document Type: | | Conference Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2010 (Kiel): Ökonomie der Familie
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