Estimating Price Elasticities of Convalescent Care Programmes

Nicolas Ziebarth ()

Economic Journal, 2010, vol. 120, issue 545, 816-844

Abstract: This study is the first to estimate price elasticities of demand for convalescent care programmes. In 1997, the German legislature more than doubled the daily co-payments for the publicly insured from €6 to €13. The measure caused the overall demand for convalescent care treatments to fall by 20 to 25%. I estimate the price elasticity for medical rehabilitation programmes aimed at preventing work disability to be about - 0.3, whereas the elasticity for medical rehabilitation programmes for recovery from accidents at work lies around - 0.5. The demand for preventive treatment at health spas is elastic and less than - 1. Copyright © The Author(s). Journal compilation © Royal Economic Society 2010.

Date: 2010
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