Incentives and choice in health care / edited by Frank A. Sloan and Hirschel Kasper.
Contributor(s): Sloan, Frank A | Kasper, Hirschel.
Publisher: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2008Description: ix, 419 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780262195775 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0262195771 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9780262693653 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0262693658 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): HEALTH ECONOMICS | MEDICINE | ECONOMICS | UNITED STATES| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-405) and index.
1. Introduction / Frank A. Sloan and Hirschel Kasper -- 2. To Find the Answer, One Must Know the Question: Health Economics and Public Policy / Henry J. Aaron -- 3. Health Capital: Theory and Empirical Evidence / Donna Gilleskie -- 4. What We Know and Don't Know about the Effects of Cost Sharing on the Demand for Medical Care-and So What? / Joseph P. Newhouse and Anna D. Sinaiko -- 5. Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard: Implications for Health Insurance Markets / Mark V. Pauly -- 6. Direct-to-Consumer Advertising in Health Care: An Overview of Economic Issues / Ernst R. Berndt and Julie M. Donohue -- 7. Reefer Madness, Frank the Tank, or Pretty Woman: To What Extent Do Addictive Behaviors Respond to Incentives? / John Cawley -- 8. Medical Career Choices and Rates of Return / Sean Nicholson -- 9. The Effects of Incentives on Pharmaceutical Innovation / Frank A. Sloan and Chee-Ruey Hsieh -- 10. Physician Fees and Behavior: Implications for Structuring a Fee Schedule / Thomas G. McGuire -- 11. Physician Pay for Performance: Alternative Perspectives / Brian R. Golden and Frank A. Sloan -- 12. Competition, Information Provision, and Hospital Quality / Gautam Gowrisankaran -- 13. Summing Up / Frank A. Sloan and Hirschel Kasper.
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