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Doctors and parents' health care

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Hessel Oosterbeek, University of Amsterdam

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Project Citation: 

Oosterbeek, Hessel. Doctors and parents’ health care. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2020. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-05-15. https://doi.org/10.3886/E119472V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary 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. This is consistent with institutions that provide equal health care for all.

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JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      D83 Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness


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