Health Care Reform and the Number of Doctor Visits � An Econometric Analysis

Rainer Winkelmann

No 210, SOI - Working Papers from Socioeconomic Institute - University of Zurich

Abstract: The paper evaluates the German health care reform of 1997, using the individual number of doctor visits as outcome measure and data from the German Socio- Economic Panel for the years 1995-1999. A number of modified count data models allow to estimate the effect of the reform in different parts of the distribution. The overall effect of the reform was a 10 percent reduction in the number of doctor visits. The effect was much larger in the lower part of the distribution than in the upper part.

Keywords: co-payment; moral hazard; count data; probit-Poisson-log-normal model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C25 I11 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2002-09
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Published in Journal of Applied Econometrics 19, 2004, pages 455-472

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