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- Title
Co-payment exemption and healthcare consumption: quasi-experimental evidence from Italy.
- Authors
Cirulli, Vanessa; Resce, Giuliano; Ventura, Marco
- Abstract
This paper investigates the causal effect of co-payment exemption on the number of specialist visits in the Italian National Health System. Exploiting a discontinuity in the multiple eligibility criteria, we apply multiple regression discontinuity in a quasi-experimental setting, considering both age and income requirements. Differently from the standard regression discontinuity, this twofold discontinuity allows to identify the effect of co-payment on a particularly needy sub-population of less wealthy people and how it changes according to the eligibility criteria. We find positive effects of co-payment exemption and the effects are stronger for less wealthy and older individuals. The result may be useful to the policy maker to tailor ad-hoc policies aimed at disadvantaged sub-populations.
- Subjects
ITALY; OLDER people; RICH people
- Publication
Empirical Economics, 2024, Vol 67, Issue 1, p355
- ISSN
0377-7332
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00181-023-02552-1