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Evaluating Mental Health Capitation Treatment: Lessons from Panel Data / Debra Sabatini Dwyer, Olivia S. Mitchell, Robert Cole, Sylvia K. Reed.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sabatini Dwyer, Debra.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w5297.
- NBER working paper series no. w5297
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mental illness--Treatment.
- Mental illness.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Evaluating Mental Health Capitation Treatment
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1995.
- Cambridge, Massachussetts : National Bureau of Economic Research, [1995]
- Summary:
- The paper evaluates a capitation-financed system of mental health services delivery developed in Rochester, New York. Cost/benefit analysis of the treatment program is implemented on three years of data using program evaluation techniques. Patient outcomes are compared across randomly assigned study groups as well as across enrollment status. The analysis implements difference-in-difference econometric techniques recently developed in the labor economics literature to control for potentially non-random attrition as well as selective non-compliance. We find that patients enrolled in the capitation program do experience significantly lower costs without becoming sicker, even after controlling for attrition and sample selection.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- October 1995.
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