Patient Cost-Sharing and Healthcare Utilization in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

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題名:	Patient Cost-Sharing and Healthcare Utilization in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
作者:	Hsing-Wen Han;Hsien-Ming Lien;Tzu-Ting Yang
關鍵詞:	Patient cost sharing;Early childhood
日期:	2020-08
上傳時間:	2019-09-17 12:10:30 (UTC+8)
摘要:	This paper estimates the price elasticity of healthcare utilization in early childhood. We employ regression discontinuity design by exploiting a subsidy that reduces patient cost-sharing for children aged under 3 in Taiwan. Using longitudinal medical claims of over 410,000 children, we find a modest price elasticity of outpatient expenditure (e.g. -0.12 for regular outpatient care). Furthermore, cost-sharing subsidy largely increases the chance of visiting expensive healthcare providers (e.g. teaching hospitals) for minor illnesses. In contrast, children’s utilization of inpatient care is price insensitive. Finally, we find no evidence that subsidy-induced healthcare utilization improves children’s health outcome.
關聯:	American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 12(3), p.238-278
DOI:	10.2139/ssrn.2851278
顯示於類別:	[會計學系暨研究所] 期刊論文

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