The effects of patient cost‐sharing on adolescents' healthcare utilization and financial risk protection: Evidence from South Korea.
We examine the effects of patient cost‐sharing on adolescents' healthcare utilization and out‐of‐pocket medical expenditures by exploiting the healthcare reform in South Korea that lowered the coinsurance rate for inpatient care from 20% to 5% for children under 16. We apply a difference‐in‐regressi...
| Publicado en: | Economic Inquiry Vol. 62; no. 3; pp. 1009 - 1024 |
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