American Economic Journal:
Applied Economics
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Do Doctors Improve the Health Care of Their Parents? Evidence from Admission Lotteries
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
vol. 14,
no. 3, July 2022
(pp. 164–84)
Abstract
To assess the importance of unequal access to medical expertise and services, we estimate the causal effects of having a child who is a doctor on parents' mortality and health care use. We use data from parents of almost 22,000 participants in admission lotteries to medical school in the Netherlands. Our findings indicate that informal access to medical expertise and services is not an important cause of differences in health care use and mortality.Citation
Artmann, Elisabeth, Hessel Oosterbeek, and Bas van der Klaauw. 2022. "Do Doctors Improve the Health Care of Their Parents? Evidence from Admission Lotteries." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 14 (3): 164–84. DOI: 10.1257/app.20190629Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- H51 National Government Expenditures and Health
- I11 Analysis of Health Care Markets
- I12 Health Behavior
- I14 Health and Inequality
- I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health