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Physician Induced Demand for C-Sections: Does the Convenience Incentive Matter?
Lefevre, Mélanie
2013
 

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Keywords :
C-section; convenience incentive; physician induced demand
Abstract :
[en] This paper investigates whether physicians induce demand for C-sections in the days preceding leisure periods. I reject that doctors are meaningfully increasing the number of cesareans to accommodate their own preferences for control of deliveries around holiday Mondays. Using a sample of more than 1,300,000 deliveries, I can precisely estimate that the induced demand due to convenience is close to zero. While I replicate previous results of lower C-section rates on leisure periods, I show that they are due to the way doctors schedule planned cesareans rather than to an induced demand for reason of physicians' convenience.
Research center :
CREPP - Centre de Recherche en Économie Publique et de la Population - ULiège
Disciplines :
Special economic topics (health, labor, transportation...)
Author, co-author :
Lefevre, Mélanie  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > HEC-Ecole de gestion : UER > Economie générale et gestion publique
Language :
English
Title :
Physician Induced Demand for C-Sections: Does the Convenience Incentive Matter?
Publication date :
August 2013
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since 16 August 2013

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