Cronin Christopher J, Guilkey David K, Speizer Ilene S
Department of Economics, University of Notre Dame.
Department of Economics and Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
J Appl Econ (Chichester Engl). 2019 Nov-Dec;34(7):1102-1120. doi: 10.1002/jae.2739. Epub 2019 Sep 4.
We use individual-level health facility choice data from urban Senegal to estimate consumer preferences for facility characteristics related to maternal health services. We find that consumers consider a large number of quality related facility characteristics, as well as travel costs, when making their health facility choice. In contrast to the typical assumption in the literature, our findings indicate that individuals frequently bypass the facility nearest their home. In light of this, we show that the mismeasured data used commonly in the literature produces biased preference estimates; most notably, the literature likely overestimates consumer distaste for travel.
我们使用来自塞内加尔城市地区的个人层面的医疗设施选择数据，来估计消费者对与孕产妇健康服务相关的设施特征的偏好。我们发现，消费者在选择医疗设施时会考虑大量与质量相关的设施特征以及交通成本。与文献中的典型假设不同，我们的研究结果表明，个人常常会绕过离家最近的设施。鉴于此，我们表明，文献中常用的测量有误的数据会产生有偏差的偏好估计；最值得注意的是，文献可能高估了消费者对出行的反感程度。
