Mismeasurement in Pay-for-Performance: Evidence from an Intervention to Reduce Health Care Spending in China
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Keywords
pay-for-performance; physician incentives; drug prescription; China’s health care system;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
- M52 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CNA-2014-07-28 (China)
- NEP-HRM-2014-07-28 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-TRA-2014-07-28 (Transition Economics)
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