Data and Code for: Do doctors improve the health care of their parents? Evidence from admission lotteries

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Elisabeth Artmann, VU Amsterdam; Hessel Oosterbeek, University of Amsterdam; Bas Van der Klaauw, VU Amsterdam

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Project Citation: 

Artmann, Elisabeth , Oosterbeek, Hessel, and Van der Klaauw, Bas. Data and Code for: Do doctors improve the health care of their parents? Evidence from admission lotteries. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2022. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-06-23. https://doi.org/10.3886/E119472V2

Project Description

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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 impor- tant cause of differences in health care use and mortality.

Scope of Project

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      D83 Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness


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