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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"hassle costs"”.
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Essays in Health Economics
… emergency departments but they also decrease hassle costs of care potentially increasing aggregate utilization. We use a stacked DID to investigate the impact of clinic openings in Massachusetts. We find that opening UCCs decrease emergency department visits among people living near the …
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Essays in political economy
… through a website. Lowering prices and reducing hassle costs increase enrollment but households often let their coverage lapse. Subsidies attract healthier households in the short run, but over time the average value of claims equalizes because of differential claim dynamics. Overall, we find …
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Operations of Innovative Business Models
… of non-refundable (potentially very small) hassle costs and the risk of campaign failure, and can explain pledging patterns commonly observed in crowdfunding. Furthermore, such delays hurt the entrepreneur if contributors are distracted, i.e., if they may fail to return to the campaign after …
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Antidepressant Persistence Before and After the Introduction of Online Renewal
The possibility for patients to renew electronic prescriptions online was introduced in Finland in November 2015. This thesis sets out to answer whether the adoption of this new feature contributed to the medication persistence of antidepressant users by reducing the effort involved in renewing …