Studies in the Area of Healthcare Economics Reported from School of Economics (Do the more educated utilize more health care services? Evidence from…

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Studies in the Area of Healthcare Economics Reported from School of Economics (Do the more educated utilize more health care services? Evidence from Vietnam using a regression discontinuity design)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health & Medicine Week -- Current study results on Economics - Healthcare Economics have been published. According to news reporting from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, by NewsRx editors, the research stated, "In 1991, Vietnam implemented a compulsory primary schooling reform that provides this study a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of education on health care utilization with a regression discontinuity design. This paper finds that education causes statistically significant impacts on health care utilization, although the signs of the impacts change with specific types of health care services examined."

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from the School of Economics, "In particular, education increases the inpatient utilization of the public health sector, but it reduces the outpatient utilization of both the public and private health sectors. The estimates are strongly robust to various windows of the sample choice."

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: "The paper also discovers that the links between education and the probability of health insurance and income play essential roles as potential mechanisms to explain the causal impact of education on health care utilization in Vietnam."

For more information on this research see: Do the more educated utilize more health care services? Evidence from Vietnam using a regression discontinuity design. International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 2018;18(3):277-299. International Journal of Health Economics and Management can be contacted at: Springer, 233 Spring St, New York, NY 10013, USA (see also Economics - Healthcare Economics).

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting T. Dang, Univ Econ Ho Chi Minh City UEH, Sch Econ, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10754-018-9233-4. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

Keywords for this news article include: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Asia, Healthcare Economics, Economics, Vietnam, Asia, School of Economics.