Posts tagged Economics

Methods to detect and measures the impact of a policy instrument on a time series

What are the methods used to detect the impact of a policy instrument on a time series? This post tracks my notes on the different existing methods : time-series modelisations (eg. ARIMA), synthetic controls

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Atlas des variations de pratiques médicales

Quelles sont les variations de pratiques médicales en France ? Quels sont les facteurs qui les expliquent ?

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The end of an era? Activity-based funding based on diagnosis-related groups (DRG)

Four exit paths from a full activity-based inpatient sector explored by ten OECD countries in the last decade.

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(Draft) Machine learning to detect and quantify low-value care

Paper: Mullainathan, S., & Obermeyer, Z. (2019). A machine learning approach to low-value health care: wasted tests, missed heart attacks and mis-predictions. National Bureau of Economic Research.

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Is Public-Private Mix in French Health System Sustainable?

Three major values –solidarity, liberalism, and pluralism– underpins the French Health System. Despite low out-of-pocket payments,its joint reimbursement of the same health service by both private and public insurance raises equity, efficiency, and sustainability challenges.

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