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. (JEL H51, I11, I12, I14, I18)
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 164-184 |
Number of pages | 21 |
Journal | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics |
Volume | 14 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jul 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:*Artmann: Institute for Employment Research (IAB) (email: [email protected]); Oosterbeek: School of Economics, University of Amsterdam (email; [email protected]); Van der Klaauw: Department of Economics, VU University Amsterdam (email: [email protected]). Neale Mahoney was coeditor for this article. We gratefully acknowledge valuable comments and suggestions from three anonymous referees as well as from seminar and workshop participants in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Florence, Odense, The Hague, and Vienna. The nonpublic micro data used in this paper are available via remote access to the Microdata services of Statistics Netherlands (project agreements 8275 and 7930). Van der Klaauw acknowledges financial support from a Vici grant from the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO) (453-15-003).
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Funding
*Artmann: Institute for Employment Research (IAB) (email: [email protected]); Oosterbeek: School of Economics, University of Amsterdam (email; [email protected]); Van der Klaauw: Department of Economics, VU University Amsterdam (email: [email protected]). Neale Mahoney was coeditor for this article. We gratefully acknowledge valuable comments and suggestions from three anonymous referees as well as from seminar and workshop participants in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Florence, Odense, The Hague, and Vienna. The nonpublic micro data used in this paper are available via remote access to the Microdata services of Statistics Netherlands (project agreements 8275 and 7930). Van der Klaauw acknowledges financial support from a Vici grant from the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO) (453-15-003).