Do Doctors Improve the Health Care of Their Parents? Evidence from Admission Lotteries

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Artmann, Elisabeth; Oosterbeek, Hessel; van der Klaauw, Bas
• 署名单位: University of Amsterdam; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20190629
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 164-184
• 关键词: socioeconomic-status; childrens education; adult mortality; medical-school; access; inequalities; physicians; survival; returns; income

摘要

To assess the importance of unequal access to medical expertise and services, we estimate the causal effects of having a child who is a doctor on parents' mortality and health care use. We use data from parents of almost 22,000 participants in admission lotteries to medical school in the Netherlands. Our findings indicate that informal access to medical expertise and services is not an important cause of differences in health care use and mortality.