The following is an abstract from the paper "Discrimination in Health Care: A Field Experiment on the Impact of Patients' Socioeconomic Status on Access to Care," by Silvia Angerer, Christian Waibe and Harald Stummer. We employ a large-scale field experiment to investigate the impact of patients' socioeconomic status on access to care. We request an appointment at more than 1,200 physicians in Austria, varying the educational level of the patient. Our results show that overall patients with a university degree receive an appointment significantly more often than patients without a degree. Differentiating between practice assistants and physicians as responders, we find that physicians provide significantly shorter response times and marginally significant shorter waiting times for appointments for patients with than without a university degree. Our results thus provide unambiguous evidence that discrimination by health providers contributes to the gradient in access to care. Furthermore, we argue that our results are consistent with implicit bias for practice assistants and statistical discrimination based on financial incentives for physicians.
The following is an abstract from the paper "Discrimination in Health Care: A Field Experiment on the Impact of Patients' Socioeconomic Status on Access to Care," by Silvia Angerer, Christian Waibe and Harald Stummer. We employ a large-scale field experiment to investigate the impact of patients' socioeconomic status on access to care. We request an appointment at more than 1,200 physicians in Austria, varying the educational level of the patient. Our results show that overall patients with a university degree receive an appointment significantly more often than patients without a degree. Differentiating between practice assistants and physicians as responders, we find that physicians provide significantly shorter response times and marginally significant shorter waiting times for appointments for patients with than without a university degree. Our results thus provide unambiguous evidence that discrimination by health providers contributes to the gradient in access to care. Furthermore, we argue that our results are consistent with implicit bias for practice assistants and statistical discrimination based on financial incentives for physicians.
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![The following is an abstract from the paper "Discrimination in Health Care: A Field Experiment on
the Impact of Patients' Socioeconomic Status on Access to Care," by Silvia Angerer, Christian Waibel,
and Harald Stummer.
We employ a large-scale field experiment to investigate the impact of patients' socioeconomic
status on access to care. We request an appointment at more than 1,200 physicians in Austria,
varying the educational level of the patient. Our results show that overall patients with a university
degree receive an appointment significantly more often than patients without a degree.
Differentiating between practice assistants and physicians as responders, we find that physicians
provide significantly shorter response times and marginally significant shorter waiting times for
appointments for patients with than without a university degree. Our results thus provide
unambiguous evidence that discrimination by health providers contributes to the gradient in access
to care. Furthermore, we argue that our results are consistent with implicit bias for practice
assistants and statistical discrimination based on financial incentives for physicians.
The outcome variable is
The authors attempt to address the endogenous variable by
Socio-economic status defined by level of education; randomly assigning education level of the
fictional patient.
Access to care (defined by appointment availability and wait times); randomly assigning
education level of the fictional patient.
O
Access to care (defined by appointment availability and wait times); randomly calling
physicians.
Socio-economic status defined by level of education; randomly calling physicians.
620
Csuranc
accomm
PSAUTASCAQUI
1915EMUS
ylee Copenhage
POLIGERE
GLAISPELEN
2016-2
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Transcribed Image Text:The following is an abstract from the paper "Discrimination in Health Care: A Field Experiment on
the Impact of Patients' Socioeconomic Status on Access to Care," by Silvia Angerer, Christian Waibel,
and Harald Stummer.
We employ a large-scale field experiment to investigate the impact of patients' socioeconomic
status on access to care. We request an appointment at more than 1,200 physicians in Austria,
varying the educational level of the patient. Our results show that overall patients with a university
degree receive an appointment significantly more often than patients without a degree.
Differentiating between practice assistants and physicians as responders, we find that physicians
provide significantly shorter response times and marginally significant shorter waiting times for
appointments for patients with than without a university degree. Our results thus provide
unambiguous evidence that discrimination by health providers contributes to the gradient in access
to care. Furthermore, we argue that our results are consistent with implicit bias for practice
assistants and statistical discrimination based on financial incentives for physicians.
The outcome variable is
The authors attempt to address the endogenous variable by
Socio-economic status defined by level of education; randomly assigning education level of the
fictional patient.
Access to care (defined by appointment availability and wait times); randomly assigning
education level of the fictional patient.
O
Access to care (defined by appointment availability and wait times); randomly calling
physicians.
Socio-economic status defined by level of education; randomly calling physicians.
620
Csuranc
accomm
PSAUTASCAQUI
1915EMUS
ylee Copenhage
POLIGERE
GLAISPELEN
2016-2
-
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