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dc.contributor.authorZiebarth, Nicolas R.en
dc.date.accessioned2009-08-04-
dc.date.accessioned2010-02-04T13:06:12Z-
dc.date.available2010-02-04T13:06:12Z-
dc.date.issued2009-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/29760-
dc.description.abstractThis study is the first to estimate the price elasticities of demand for both medical rehabilitation programs and treatment at health spas. In Germany, the Statutory Health Insurance (SHI) covers both forms of therapy if administered in authorized medical facilities on referral from a physician. While health resort stays are prescribed to recover from general symptoms of poor health and are preventive in character, medical rehabilitation implies recovering from a specific illness or accident. From 1997 onwards, the German government more than doubled the copayments for both types of health care services from DM 12 (e6.14) to DM 25 (e12.78) per day for those insured under the SHI. Using longitudinal microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), this exogenous price variation allows us to study the causal effects on demand, since we have a sound control group available. The data suggest that pull-forward effects in 1996 accounted for up to one-fifth of the subsequent decrease in demand. Taking this anticipation effect into account, we show that the reform induced a decrease in total demand of about 20 percent. We estimate the price elasticity for rehabilitation programs that aim at preventing work incapacity to be about -0.15, whereas the elasticity for rehabilitation programs for recovery from work accidents lies around -0.30. In contrast, the price elasticity for treatment at health spas is elastic and lies between -1 and -2.5.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aDeutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) |cBerlinen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aDIW Discussion Papers |x910en
dc.subject.jelH51en
dc.subject.jelI1en
dc.subject.jelI18en
dc.subject.jelJ22en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordConvalescent careen
dc.subject.keywordhealth spaen
dc.subject.keywordmedical rehabilitationen
dc.subject.keywordprice elasticitiesen
dc.subject.keywordSOEPen
dc.subject.stwRehabilitationen
dc.subject.stwPreiselastizitäten
dc.subject.stwGesundheitsreformen
dc.subject.stwWirkungsanalyseen
dc.subject.stwDeutschlanden
dc.titleDo I really need to go to rehab? I'd say no, no, no.: estimating price elasticities of convalescent care programs-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn605961573en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen
dc.identifier.repecRePEc:diw:diwwpp:dp910en

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