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2. Do Financial Incentives Influence GPs' Decisions to Do After-hours Work? A Discrete Choice Labour Supply Model.
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Broadway, Barbara, Kalb, Guyonne, Li, Jinhu, and Scott, Anthony
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GENERAL practitioners ,COMPARATIVE studies ,DECISION making ,INCOME ,RESEARCH methodology ,MEDICAL cooperation ,MOTIVATION (Psychology) ,RESEARCH ,SEX distribution ,EVALUATION research ,ECONOMICS - Abstract
This paper analyses doctors' supply of after-hours care (AHC), and how it is affected by personal and family circumstances as well as the earnings structure. We use detailed survey data from a large sample of Australian General Practitioners (GPs) to estimate a structural, discrete choice model of labour supply and AHC. This allows us to jointly model GPs' decisions on the number of daytime-weekday working hours and the probability of providing AHC. We simulate GPs' labour supply responses to an increase in hourly earnings, both in a daytime-weekday setting and for AHC. GPs increase their daytime-weekday working hours if their hourly earnings in this setting increase, but only to a very small extent. GPs are somewhat more likely to provide AHC if their hourly earnings in that setting increase, but again, the effect is very small and only evident in some subgroups. Moreover, higher earnings in weekday-daytime practice reduce the probability of providing AHC, particularly for men. Increasing GPs' earnings appears to be at best relatively ineffective in encouraging increased provision of AHC and may even prove harmful if incentives are not well targeted. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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3. What factors affect physicians' labour supply: Comparing structural discrete choice and reduced-form approaches.
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Kalb, Guyonne, Kuehnle, Daniel, Scott, Anthony, Cheng, Terence Chai, Jeon, Sung‐Hee, and Jeon, Sung-Hee
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COMPARATIVE studies ,DECISION making ,INCOME ,RESEARCH methodology ,MEDICAL cooperation ,MEDICAL specialties & specialists ,MOTIVATION (Psychology) ,RESEARCH ,SEX distribution ,EVALUATION research ,STATISTICAL models - Abstract
Little is known about the response of physicians to changes in compensation: Do increases in compensation increase or decrease labour supply? In this paper, we estimate wage elasticities for physicians. We apply both a structural discrete choice approach and a reduced-form approach to examine how these different approaches affect wage elasticities at the intensive margin. Using uniquely rich data collected from a large sample of general practitioners (GPs) and specialists in Australia, we estimate 3 alternative utility specifications (quadratic, translog, and box-cox utility functions) in the structural approach, as well as a reduced-form specification, separately for men and women. Australian data is particularly suited for this analysis due to a lack of regulation of physicians' fees leading to variation in earnings. All models predict small negative wage elasticities for male and female GPs and specialists passing several sensitivity checks. For this high-income and long-working-hours population, the translog and box-cox utility functions outperform the quadratic utility function. Simulating the effects of 5% and 10% wage increases at the intensive margin slightly reduces the full-time equivalent supply of male GPs, and to a lesser extent of male specialists and female GPs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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4. Weather and children's time allocation.
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Nguyen, Ha Trong, Le, Huong Thu, and Connelly, Luke B
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RESEARCH ,RAINFALL ,TEMPERATURE ,RESEARCH methodology ,WEATHER ,MEDICAL cooperation ,EVALUATION research ,SEASONS ,COMPARATIVE studies - Abstract
This paper presents the first causal estimates of the effect of weather on children's time allocation. It exploits exogenous variations in local weather observed during the random diary dates of two nationally representative cohorts of Australian children whose time-use diaries were surveyed biennially over 10 years. Unfavorable weather conditions, as represented by cold or hot temperature or rain, cause children to switch activities from outdoors to indoors, mainly by reducing the time allocated to active pursuits and travel and increasing the time allocated to media. Furthermore, the effects of bad weather are more pronounced on weekends and for children with asthma. Our results also provide some evidence of adaptation, as temperature tends to have greater impact not only in winter months but also in colder regions. Our findings are robust to a wide range of sensitivity checks, including controlling for individual fixed effects and using alternative model specifications. Overall, the results suggest that extreme weather conditions may diminish children's health, development and long-term achievements through their effects on children's time allocation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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5. Out of sight but not out of mind: Home countries' macroeconomic volatilities and immigrants' mental health.
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Nguyen, Ha Trong and Connelly, Luke Brian
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COMPARATIVE studies ,ECONOMICS ,PSYCHOLOGY of immigrants ,RESEARCH methodology ,MEDICAL cooperation ,MENTAL health ,RESEARCH ,SOCIOECONOMIC factors ,EVALUATION research ,STATISTICAL models - Abstract
We provide the first empirical evidence that better economic performances by immigrants' countries of origin, as measured by lower consumer price index (CPI) or higher gross domestic product, improve immigrants' mental health. We use an econometrically-robust approach that exploits exogenous changes in macroeconomic conditions across immigrants' home countries over time and controls for immigrants' observable and unobservable characteristics. The CPI effect is statistically significant and sizeable. Furthermore, the CPI effect diminishes as the time since emigrating increases. By contrast, home countries' unemployment rates and exchange rate fluctuations have no impact on immigrants' mental health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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6. Family formation and the demand for health insurance.
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Doiron, Denise and Kettlewell, Nathan
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RESEARCH ,RESEARCH methodology ,FAMILIES ,MEDICAL cooperation ,EVALUATION research ,INCOME ,COMPARATIVE studies ,HEALTH insurance ,CUSTOMER satisfaction - Abstract
We study how demand for health insurance responds to family formation using a unique panel of young Australian women. Our data allow us to simultaneously control for the influence of state dependence and unobserved heterogeneity and detailed information on children and child aspirations. We find evidence that women purchase insurance in preparation for pregnancy but then transition out of insurance once they have finished family building. Children have a large, negative impact on demand for insurance, although this effect is smaller for those on higher incomes. We also find that state dependence has a large impact on insurance demand. Our results are robust to a variety of alternative modelling strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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