Replication data for: Hospital Choices, Hospital Prices, and Financial Incentives to Physicians
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Kate Ho; Ariel Pakes
Version: View help for Version V1
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Project Citation:
Ho, Kate, and Pakes, Ariel. Replication data for: Hospital Choices, Hospital Prices, and Financial Incentives to Physicians. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2014. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/E112712V1
Project Description
Summary:
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We estimate an insurer-specific preference function which rationalizes
hospital referrals for privately insured births in California. The function
is additively separable in: a hospital price paid by the insurer,
the distance traveled, and plan- and severity-specific hospital fixed
effects (capturing hospital quality). We use an inequality estimator
that allows for errors in price and detailed hospital-severity interactions and obtain markedly different results than those from a logit. The estimates indicate that insurers with more capitated physicians are more responsive to price. Capitated plans send patients further to utilize similar quality, lower-priced hospitals; but the cost-quality trade-off does not vary with capitation rates. (JEL G22, H51, I11, I13, I18, J44)
Scope of Project
JEL Classification:
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G22 Insurance; Insurance Companies; Actuarial Studies
H51 National Government Expenditures and Health
I11 Analysis of Health Care Markets
I13 Health Insurance, Public and Private
I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
J44 Professional Labor Markets; Occupational Licensing
G22 Insurance; Insurance Companies; Actuarial Studies
H51 National Government Expenditures and Health
I11 Analysis of Health Care Markets
I13 Health Insurance, Public and Private
I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
J44 Professional Labor Markets; Occupational Licensing
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