Effect of the Melhor em Casa program on hospital costs

• Main Authors: Fábio Nishimura (Author), Aniela Fagundes Carrara (Author), Carlos Eduardo de Freitas (Author)
• פורמט: ספר
• יצא לאור: Universidade de São Paulo, 2019-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• נושאים: article
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ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To verify if the Melhor em Casa program can actually reduce hospitalization costs. METHODS We use as an empirical strategy a Regression Discontinuity Design, which reduces endogeneity problems of our model. We also performed tests of heterogeneous responses and robustness. Data on...