Pricing and User Fees

P. Dupas

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-375678-7.00123-1

Pricing and User Fees

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This article is concerned with the issue of user fees (or user charges) for public health services. The implications of user fees for cost-effectiveness, allocative efficiency, equity, progressivity of public healthcare spending, and quality of service are discussed. Each of these is a desirable end in itself, and so each is an important factor in the optimal pricing decision; however, they are not always compatible with each other. Furthermore, they all have to be financed from a single, and typically constrained, budget. Thus governments have to tradeoff over them. The theory and empirical evidence on the effects of user fees on each factor are reviewed.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of Health Economics
Publisher	Elsevier
Pages	136-141
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9780123756787
ISBN (Print)	9780123756794
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-375678-7.00123-1
State	Published - Jan 1 2014
Externally published	Yes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
General Business, Management and Accounting

Keywords

Bed net
Chlorine
Demand
Malaria
Placebo-price effect
Preventive care
Price-elasticity
Pricing
Progressivity
Randomized trial
Sunk cost
Treatment
User fee

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