Price Sensitivity of Demand for Prescription Drugs: Exploiting a Regression Kink Design (replication data)

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We investigate price sensitivity of demand for prescription drugs, using drug purchase records for the entire Danish population. We identify price responsiveness by exploiting variation in prices caused by kinked reimbursement schemes and implement a regression kink design. The results suggest some price responsiveness with corresponding price elasticities ranging from ?0.2 to ?0.7. Individuals with chronic disease and especially individuals above the age of 65 respond less to the price of drugs.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.15456/jae.2022326.0657947344
Metadata Access https://www.da-ra.de/oaip/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai:oai.da-ra.de:775553
Provenance
Creator Simonsen, Marianne; Skipper, Lars; Skipper, Niels
Publisher ZBW - Leibniz Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
Publication Year 2016
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY); Download
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Contact ZBW - Leibniz Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
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Language English
Resource Type Collection
Discipline Economics