Using the age-based insurance eligibility criterion to estimate moral hazard in medical care consumption

This paper uses fuzzy regression discontinuity design to estimate the moral hazard effect in health care consumption in the population of young adults. We use invoice data for outpatient hospital services from a regional hospital in Croatia.The estimation is complicated by the fact that the data set...

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Main Authors: Yan Zheng, Tomislav Vukina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Public Finance 2016-09-01
Series:Financial Theory and Practice
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Online Access: http://fintp.ijf.hr/upload/files/ftp/2016/3/zheng_vukina.pdf