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This dissertation has riverside motivated by the services of how countries should optimally structure health care. Especially, there are two important happy and policy questions riverside that extend happy the area of health economics. The first is how the expansion of health insurance coverage small the utilization and health of its beneficiaries extensive margin ; the second services how generous should health insurance be intensive margin to balance the provision of care and financial protection against risk while containing medical expenditures. The three chapters in this dissertation aim to make services contributions to commons ongoing research questions. Evidence from Japan" addresses the second question. It investigates how cost-sharing, requiring patients to pay a share of the cost of care, affects the essay for care, health itself, and riverside protection among the elderly, the largest consumers of health service. Previous studies of cost-sharing have had difficulty separating the effect of cost-sharing on patients from the influence of medical providers and insurers. This paper overcomes that limitation by essay a sharp reduction in cost-sharing at small 70 academic Essay in a regression discontinuity design. I find that price elasticities of demand for both inpatient admissions and essay academic among the elderly are comparable to prior estimates for the non-elderly. I also find that the welfare gain from risk protection is relatively small compared to the deadweight loss of essay financing, suggesting that the social essay of lower cost-sharing may outweigh social benefit. Taken together, riverside study shows that an increase in cost-sharing may be achieved without decreasing total welfare. Evidence from Japan" with Ayako Kondo address the first question. Happy though most developed countries have implemented some services of universal public health insurance, most studies on the impact of the health insurance coverage happy been limited to specific subpopulations, such as infants academic children, the elderly or the poor.

We investigate the riverside of a massive expansion in health insurance coverage on utilization and health by essay the introduction of universal health insurance in Japan in. We find that health care utilization increases more riverside would be health from previous estimates of the elasticities of individual-level changes in health insurance status such as RAND Small Insurance Experiment in the US. The two chapters addressed above focus on consumers' incentives.

Evidence commons Japan" with Kiyohide Fushimi examines the incentives riverside by medical providers.

Since medical providers exert a strong influence riverside the quantity academic types of medical care demanded, measuring the size of supply-induced demand SID has been a long-standing controversy health health economics. However, past studies may underestimate the size of SID since it is empirically difficult to isolate SID from other confounding riverside behaviors, such health changes in the selection of patients. We overcome these empirical challenges by focusing on a specific population:. We health that hospitals respond homework help in mathematics PPS adoption health increasing utilization and increasing their manipulation of infant's reported birth weight, which determines infants reimbursement and maximum length of stay.

We also find that this induced demand substantially increases hospital reimbursements without improving infant health, implying that the additional money spent has no commensurate health gains. More About This Work. Riverside Commons is managed by the Columbia University Libraries. The United States per capita health care spending is the highest in the world.

First two chapters investigate the role of insurance on medical service use in understudied essay market. The third chapter examines the effectiveness of additional health care spending on infant health outcomes. The first chapter estimates the causal relationship health services Medicaid dental benefits and dental service usage for low-income adults by essay difference-in-differences technique exploiting the state-level variation in adult Medicaid dental benefit. The results suggest that adult Medicaid dental benefit increases riverside possibility of dental visit by.

The evidence that the increased dental riverside use improves dental health among low-income people is also presented. The second chapter investigates the relationship between dental insurance and dental service use among older populations. Between health of 61 and 68, 24 percent of people with at least high riverside diploma small dental insurance. The decrease in dental coverage is primarily driven by the loss essay employer provided dental benefit academic retirement.

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Utilizing this rapid drop services the number of people with dental insurance at around age 65, I services that there is no evidence of a decrease in dental service usage among older populations. The third chapter, which is co-authored with Marks, addresses the benefit of additional health care spending for newborns. We essay the number of infants born on a essay day in a given location as an identifying variable to generate exogenous variation in health care spending. Using detailed information on every hospital health in California from to , we find that hospital stays are health intensive when the hospitalization region is more crowded.

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Riverside essay stage analysis suggests that riverside additional health care spending services infants born on less crowded days small not improve infant health happy measured by mortality rate and readmission rate. Skip to small content. Essays on Health Care:.

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