Re-evaluating an Evaluation Study: The Case of the German Health Care Reform of 1997

Rainer Winkelmann

No 311, SOI - Working Papers from Socioeconomic Institute - University of Zurich

Abstract: This paper reports on a re-evaluation of the German health care reform of 1997. A previous evaluation found a limited effect of a 4.4 percent reduction of the number of doctor visits in a sample of pharmacy customers. The re-evaluation based on a representative household survey, the German Socio-Economic Panel, yields a much larger effect. The paper uses this case study to discuss the methods and benefits of modern techniques of program evaluation.

Keywords: co-payment; counter-factual; differences-in-differences; count data; Poisson regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C25 I11 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2003-10
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