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Publicación: | Bellaterra : Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada 2020 |
Descripción: | 38 pag. |
Resumen: | This paper examines how workload affects the provision of care in a large but understudied segment of the healthcare sector - maternity wards. I use detailed patient-level administrative data on childbirth, and exploit quasi-random assignment of unscheduled patients to different staffing ratios. I find that patients who at admission observe a higher ratio of patients-to-midwives are more likely to receive a C-section. I show that this result is not attributable to patients' differential sorting across workload levels. Instead, I find evidence that C-sections are used to alleviate midwives' workload -they are faster than vaginal births and performed by physicians. I also exploit patient's civil status to determine whether the effect varies with patient's bargaining power -single women are on average more likely to be alone in the delivery room. Consistent with induced demand, only single patients are more likely to receive a C-section when admitted at high workload levels. |
Derechos: | Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, i la comunicació pública de l'obra, sempre que no sigui amb finalitats comercials, i sempre que es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original. No es permet la creació d'obres derivades. |
Lengua: | Anglès |
Colección: | Document de treball (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada) ; 09.20 |
Documento: | Working paper |
Materia: | Cesarean section ; Workload ; Midwives ; Physician induced demand ; Bargaining power |
38 p, 1.3 MB |