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SUMMARY:Information and Disparities in Health Care Quality: Evidence from 
 GP Choice in England - Dr Andre Veiga\, Imperial College Business School
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CONTACT:Emily Brown
DESCRIPTION:Low-income patients tend to receive lower quality health care.
  They have limited access to high quality options and – even conditional
  on access – are less likely to choose high performing providers.\n\nWe 
 show that differential information about quality is an important determina
 nt of this disparity. Our empirical strategy exploits the temporary presen
 ce of a website that publicly displayed summary star ratings of general pr
 actitioner (GP) offices in England. Regression discontinuity (RD) estimate
 s show that\, on average\, patients respond sharply to the information on 
 the website\, and that this response is almost entirely driven by resident
 s of low-income neighbourhoods.\n\nWe incorporate these RD moments in a st
 ructural demand model that allows for consumer inertia as well as heteroge
 neity by income in baseline information and preferences. Our results indic
 ate that a meaningful fraction of the income-quality gradient could be eli
 minated by removing informational differences. This suggests that relative
 ly low-cost information interventions have the potential to reduce health 
 care inequalities.\n\nPlease note\, all our research seminars can be found
  on the CJBS website:\n"CJBS Research Seminars":https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/
 events/?term=&category=+3263&audience=&location=&date=&pagination=1\n
LOCATION:LT2\, Cambridge Judge Business School
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