| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w25306 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 25306 |
| Free for Children? Patient Cost-sharing and Healthcare Utilization | |
| Toshiaki Iizuka; Hitoshi Shigeoka | |
| 发表日期 | 2018-12-03 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This study exploits over 5,000 variations in subsidy generosity across ages and municipalities in Japan to examine how children respond to healthcare prices. We find that free care significantly increases outpatient spending, with price elasticities considerably smaller than for adults. Price responses are substantially larger when small copayments are introduced, indicating more elastic demand around a zero price. We also find that increased utilization primarily reflects low-value and costly care: increased outpatient spending neither reduces subsequent hospitalization by “avoidable” conditions nor improves short- or medium-term health outcomes. By contrast, inappropriate use of antibiotics and costly after-hours visits increase. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w25306 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/582980 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Toshiaki Iizuka,Hitoshi Shigeoka. Free for Children? Patient Cost-sharing and Healthcare Utilization. 2018. |
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| w25306.pdf（778KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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