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Essays on health care markets

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Essays on health care markets
作者:	Rothman, Dov Benjamin.
面頁冊數:	99 p.
附註:	Chair: David I. Levine.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-02, Section: A, page: 0630.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-02A.
標題:	Economics, Commerce-Business.
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3121672
ISBN:	049669023X

Essays on health care markets
Rothman, Dov Benjamin.

Essays on health care markets [electronic resource] - 99 p.

Chair: David I. Levine.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2003.

In the second chapter I compare two information-based theories of discrimination. The first theory assumes markets believe minorities tend to be lower quality on average than non-minorities. The second theory assumes markets believe the quality of minorities is more variable than the quality of non-minorities. I compare these empirically by testing whether malpractice lawsuits affect minority and non-minority physicians differently. I show the former perspective predicts that malpractice lawsuits should affect non-minority physicians more than minority physicians and the latter perspective predicts that malpractice lawsuits should affect minority physicians more than non-minority physicians. I find that malpractice lawsuits have a significantly more negative effect on the earnings of non-white physicians than white physicians. This result suggests that consumers are more uncertain about the quality of minority physicians and that this added uncertainty penalizes minority physicians.

ISBN: 049669023XSubjects--Topical Terms:

212577
Economics, Commerce-Business.

Essays on health care markets
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520 # $a In the third chapter I (and David Levine) ask whether openness to trade affects infant and child mortality rates and primary and secondary school enrollment rates. We use a gravity model of trade and find that trade has a slightly favorable effect on infant and child mortality even after controlling for the positive effect of trade on a country's gross national product. We also find that trade has a slightly negative effect on primary and secondary enrollment rates but caution that these results are likely to be biased downward.
520 # $a This dissertation is comprised of three chapters. In the first chapter I ask whether physicians are able to differentiate themselves to consumers by practicing in medical groups that have reputations for quality. I use variation in consumer uncertainty about the quality of individual physicians to test this hypothesis. I find that physicians who consumers are most uncertain about benefit most from practicing in groups that have reputations for quality.
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