Do Doctors Improve the Health Care of Their Parents? Evidence from Admission Lotteries

Elisabeth Artmann, Hessel Oosterbeek, Bas van der Klaauw*

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)164-184
Number of pages21
JournalAmerican Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Volume14
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2022

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
*Artmann: Institute for Employment Research (IAB) (email: elisabeth.artmann2@iab.de); Oosterbeek: School of Economics, University of Amsterdam (email; h.oosterbeek@uva.nl); Van der Klaauw: Department of Economics, VU University Amsterdam (email: b.vander.klaauw@vu.nl). 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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