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Type | Working Paper |
Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
Title | How Did the German Health Care Reform of 1997 Change the Distribution of the Demand for Health Services? |
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Institution | University of Zurich |
Series Name | Working paper series / Socioeconomic Institute |
Number | No. 314 |
Date | 2003 |
Abstract Text | I consider the problem of evaluating the effect of a health care reform on the demand for doctor visits when the effect is potentially different in different parts of the outcome distribution. Quantile regression is a useful technique for studying such heterogeneous treatment effects. Recent progree has been made to extend such methods to applications with a count dependent variable. An analysis of a 1997 health care reform in Germany shows the benefit of the approach: lower quantiles, such as the 25 percent quantile, fell by substantially larger amounts than what would have been predicted based on Poisson or negative binomial models. |
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