Cost-Sharing and Use of Health Services in Italy: Evidence from a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design
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- Michela Ponzo & Vincenzo Scoppa, 2016. "Cost-Sharing And Use Of Health Services In Italy: Evidence From A Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design," Working Papers 201604, Università della Calabria, Dipartimento di Economia, Statistica e Finanza "Giovanni Anania" - DESF.
- Michela Ponzo & Vincenzo Scoppa, 2016. "Cost-Sharing and Use of Health Services in Italy: Evidence from a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design," CSEF Working Papers 440, Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), University of Naples, Italy.
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Keywords
fuzzy regression discontinuity design; health outcomes; moral hazard; cost-sharing; healthcare demand; health insurance; instrumental variables;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
- I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private
- I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
- C26 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Instrumental Variables (IV) Estimation
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EUR-2016-03-17 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-HEA-2016-03-17 (Health Economics)
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