报告主题:Patient Cost Sharing and Healthcare Usage under Hierarchical Medical System
主讲人:张川川副教授,太阳成集团tyc33455ccwww
时间:2019年5月30日(周四)14:00-15:30
地点:沙河校区主教301室
主讲人简介:张川川,太阳成集团tyc33455ccwww经济学院副教授,2013年博士毕业于北京大学国家发展研究院,获经济学博士学位,曾任哈佛大学经济系访问研究员和世界银行总行研究顾问。他的研究方向为健康经济学、公共经济学和劳动经济学,研究兴趣包括老龄问题和社会保障、健康状况的决定因素和影响、文化观念与经济行为等。近年来在Demography, Journal of Population Economics, Health Economics,《中国社会科学》《经济研究》、《经济学季刊》、《世界经济》、《金融研究》等国内外期刊发表论文三十余篇,研究成果被《新华文摘》、《社会科学文摘》和人大复印报刊资料等刊物转载十余次,研究成果获得北京市哲学社会科学优秀成果奖(一等奖)。
Abstract:This paper examines the impact of patient cost sharing on healthcare usage and health expenditure. Exploiting a policy experiment and using a regression discontinuity design, we find that a 10 percentage points sharp reduction in patient cost sharing at age 80 increases the likelihood of hospitalization within one year by 4 percent, the times of hospitalization within one year by 6 percent, and the total expenditure per hospitalization by 10 percent. The results show that reduced patient cost sharing is associated with lower out-of-pocket expenditures. We also find substantial heterogeneous effects across diseases and the level of hospital. We find no impact on mortality.