More Hospital Choices, More C-Sections: Evidence from Chile
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- de Elejalde, Ramiro & Giolito, Eugenio, 2021. "A demand-smoothing incentive for cesarean deliveries," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 75(C).
- Ramiro de Elejalde & Eugenio Giolito, 2019. "More Hospital Choices, More C-sections: Evidence from Chile," ILADES-UAH Working Papers inv329, Universidad Alberto Hurtado/School of Economics and Business.
- Ramiro de Elejalde & Eugenio Giolito, 2019. "More hospital choices, more C-sections: Evidence from Chile," Documentos de Trabajo 17312, The Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA).
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Keywords
health care; provider incentives; labor and delivery;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
- I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HEA-2019-05-06 (Health Economics)
- NEP-IAS-2019-05-06 (Insurance Economics)
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