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| Publication date |
07-2022
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| Journal |
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
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| Volume | Issue number |
14 | 3
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| Pages (from-to) |
164-184
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| Number of pages |
21
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| Organisations |
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Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) - Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute (ASE-RI)
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Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB)
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| Abstract |
To assess the importance of unequal access to medical expertise and services, we estimate the causal effects of having a child who is a doctor on parents' mortality and health care use. We use data from parents of almost 22,000 participants in admission lotteries to medical school in the Netherlands. Our  findings indicate that informal access to medical expertise and services is not an important cause of differences in health care use and mortality.
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| Document type |
Article
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| Language |
English
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| Related dataset |
Doctors and parents' health care
Data and Code for: Do doctors improve the health care of their parents? Evidence from admission lotteries
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| Published at |
https://doi.org/10.1257/app.20190629
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