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Health Care Reform and the Number of Doctor Visits - An Econometric Analysis

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Winkelmann, Rainer () (IZA, Bonn)

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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.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 317.

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Keywords: Co-payment; moral hazard; count data; probit-Poisson-log-normal model;

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I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
C25 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models

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