Rainer Winkelmann

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Affiliation: University of Zurich
Country: Switzerland

Publications

  1. ncbi Co-payments for prescription drugs and the demand for doctor visits--evidence from a natural experiment
    Rainer Winkelmann
    Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Switzerland
    Health Econ 13:1081-9. 2004
  2. ncbi Reforming health care: evidence from quantile regressions for counts
    Rainer Winkelmann
    University of Zurich, Socioeconomic Institute, Ziirichbergstr 14, CH 8032 Zurich, Switzerland
    J Health Econ 25:131-45. 2006

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Publications2

  1. ncbi Co-payments for prescription drugs and the demand for doctor visits--evidence from a natural experiment
    Rainer Winkelmann
    Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Switzerland
    Health Econ 13:1081-9. 2004
    ..The differences-in-differences estimates indicate that increased co-payments reduced the number of doctor visits by about 10% on an average...
  2. ncbi Reforming health care: evidence from quantile regressions for counts
    Rainer Winkelmann
    University of Zurich, Socioeconomic Institute, Ziirichbergstr 14, CH 8032 Zurich, Switzerland
    J Health Econ 25:131-45. 2006
    ..An analysis of a 1997 health care reform in Germany shows that lower quantiles, such as the first quartile, fell by substantially larger amounts than what would have been predicted based on Poisson or negative binomial models...