Too many cooks could spoil the broth: choice overload and the provision of ambulatory health care

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• What: The authors examine whether there is a CO effect in the demand for ambulatory health care in Germany by analyzing the association of medical specialists supply on so-called patients` health uncertainty. The authors investigate if the CO effect is smaller in areas with a higher density of general practitioners (GPs). For the health uncertainty measure, the authors implement the ‘within-between` formulation of the Mundlak approach (Mundlak, 1978). Instead of the between variation, the authors focus on the within variation by estimating a fixed-effects model.
• Who: Helmut Herwartz from the examine whether . . .
  

   

  

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