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The effect of health facility ownership on perceived healthcare quality: evidence from Ghana (2024)
Journal Article
Bawuah, A., Appleton, S., & Li, Y. (2024). The effect of health facility ownership on perceived healthcare quality: evidence from Ghana. International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 24(4), 571-593. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10754-024-09385-0

Whether private healthcare providers should be encouraged over public providers remains unclear. On the one hand, because private providers are profit-driven, they are more motivated to compete for demand by enhancing quality if demand is elastic. Ho... Read More about The effect of health facility ownership on perceived healthcare quality: evidence from Ghana.

Money and mental health: The impact of intergenerational transfers on elderly people in China (2024)
Journal Article
Appleton, S., Huang, J., Lou, X., & Zhou, M. (2024). Money and mental health: The impact of intergenerational transfers on elderly people in China. Health Economics, 33(11), 2645-2670. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4887

Using three waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, this paper examines whether financial transfers from adult children to elderly parents affect the latter's mental health. Both OLS and instrumental variable (IV) estimates show... Read More about Money and mental health: The impact of intergenerational transfers on elderly people in China.