Optimal Rationing within a Heterogeneous Population

Philippe Choné and Stephane Gauthier

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Abstract: A government agency delegates to a provider (hospital, medical gatekeeper, school, social worker) the decision to supply a service or treatment to individual recipients. The agency does not perfectly know the distribution of individual treatment costs in the population. The single-crossing property is not satisfied when the uncertainty pertains to the dispersion of the distribution. We find that the provision of service should be distorted upwards when the first-best efficient number of recipients is sufficiently high.

Keywords: provision of service; service; treatment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-06
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Published in Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2017, 19 (3), pp.732-738

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