Background Many public health interventions cannot be evaluated using randomised
controlled trials so they rely on the assessment of observational data. Techniques for …

Objective To compare interactive fixed effects (IFE) and generalized synthetic control (GSC)
methods to methods prevalent in health policy evaluation and re‐evaluate the impact of the …

We study the impact of competition among physicians on service provision and patients'
health outcomes for the US commercial market. We focus on cardiologists treating patients …

We examine the impact of Medicare Part D on mortality for the population over the age of 65.
We identify the effects of the reform using variation in drug coverage across counties before …

This study aims to examine the impact of China's population policy changes on social
insurance. Nearly 4 decades ago, China ushered in the 1‐child policy as a family planning …

While the medical home has proven effective at improving continuity of care among other
populations, there is a paucity of literature testing the effectiveness of medical homes in …

This study examines the impact of social insurance benefit restrictions on physician
behaviour, using ophthalmologists as a case study. We examine whether ophthalmologists …

Primary payments—those made by insurance carriers—to office-based physicians rose
moderately between 2013 and 2014. Payments declined for orthopedics and surgery while …

A steady downward trend in health-care services price inflation over the past decade has
been a major factor holding down core inflation. Much of this downward trend reflects lower …

There is little doubt that the tenure of President Barack Obama and implementation of the
Affordable Care Act has had a profound effect on the United States healthcare delivery …