Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/37471 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2010: Ökonomie der Familie - Session: Health Policy: Patients, Doctors, Hospitals No. D18-V1
Publisher: 
Verein für Socialpolitik, Frankfurt a. M.
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

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