Finance Economics and Econometrics Lab
Seminar Series
2022 - 2023
Seminar Financed by the TEPREME project
Speaker: Andre Veiga (Imperial College Business School).
Title: “Information and Disparities in Health Care Quality: Evidence from GP Choice in England”
joint with Zach Y. Brown (U of Michigan), Christopher Hansman (Imperial College London) and Jordan Keener (U of Michigan).
Date: Thursday, February 9th at 12h30 (Paris Time).
Abstract: Low-income patients tend to receive lower quality health care. They have limited access to high quality options and—even conditional on access—are less likely to choose high performing providers. We show that differential information about provider quality is an important determinant of this disparity. Our empirical strategy exploits the temporary presence of a website that publicly displayed summary star ratings of general practitioner (GP) offices in England. Regression discontinuity (RD) estimates show that, on average, patients respond sharply to the information on the website, and that this response is almost entirely driven by residents of low-income neighborhoods. We incorporate our RD moments into a structural model of demand that allows for heterogeneity in information in addition to consumer inertia and heterogeneous preferences. Our results indicate that a meaningful fraction of the income-quality gradient could be eliminated by removing informational differences.
Bio: Here is a link to the speaker’s website
You are cordially invited to participate to the following seminar of the FEELab, which will take place in Room 204, Bosco building.
Here is a link to the website of the TEPREME project which finances this seminar:
https://sites.google.com/view/tepreme/
For more information, please contact: Anna D’Annunzio a.d-annunzio@tbs-education.fr or Pierre Mella-Barral p.mella-barral@tbs-education.fr