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| Type | Working Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | An econometric model of health care demand with non-linear pricing |
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| Institution | University of Zurich |
| Series Name | Working paper series / Department of Economics |
| Number | 204 |
| ISSN | 1664-7041 |
| Number of Pages | 23 |
| Date | 2015 |
| Abstract Text | From 2004 to 2012, the German social health insurance levied a co-payment for the first doctor visit in a calendar quarter. We develop a new model for estimating the effect of such a co-payment on the individual number of visits per quarter. The model allows for a one time increase in the otherwise constant hazard rate determining the timing of doctor visits, and uses a difference-in-differences strategy to identify the reform effect. The model can be adapted to a situation where the reporting period and the calendar quarter differ. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we do not find an effect of the co-payment on demand for doctor visits. |
| Official URL | http://www.econ.uzh.ch/static/wp/econwp204.pdf |
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| Keywords | Count data, Poisson process, co-payment, hurdle model, Lévy-Prozess, Lineares Regressionsmodell, Ärztliche Behandlung, Kostenverteilung |