Vibeke Myrup Jensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 6045396 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vibeke Myrup Jensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vibeke Myrup |
| FAMILY NAME | Jensen |
| SIGNATURE | JENSEN V M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Danish National Centre for Social Research |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Happy Doctor Makes Happy Baby? Incentivizing Physicians Improves Quality of Prenatal Care
Physician-induced demand, whereby physicians alter patient treatment for personal gain, lies at the heart of concerns about publicly provided health care. However, little is known about how payment systems affect the ultimate outcome of patient health. Exploiting a unique policy induced variation in Denmark, I investigate the impact of physician payment contracts on infant health. In a difference-in-differences framework, I find that firstborn in…
Danish education registers
INTRODUCTION: Collection of systematic information on education is a long-established practice in Denmark. CONTENT: We describe the education registers available through Statistics Denmark. In particular, we describe the most widely used register: the Population Education Register (PER). VALIDITY AND COVERAGE: In 2008, 96% of the Danish population aged 15-69 have non-missing education information in PER. For the immigrant population born in the s…
Does More Schooling Reduce Hospitalization and Delay Mortality? New Evidence Based on Danish Twins
Schooling generally is positively associated with better health-related outcomes—for example, less hospitalization and later mortality—but these associations do not measure whether schooling causes better health-related outcomes. Schooling may in part be a proxy for unobserved endowments—including family background and genetics—that both are correlated with schooling and have direct causal effects on these outcomes. This study addresses the schoo…
Does More Schooling Reduce Hospitalization and Delay Mortality? New Evidence Based on Danish Twins
Schooling generally is positively associated with better health-related outcomes—for example, less hospitalization and later mortality—but these associations do not measure whether schooling causes better health-related outcomes. Schooling may in part be a proxy for unobserved endowments—including family background and genetics—that both are correlated with schooling and have direct causal effects on these outcomes. This study addresses the schoo…
Danish education registers
INTRODUCTION: Collection of systematic information on education is a long-established practice in Denmark. CONTENT: We describe the education registers available through Statistics Denmark. In particular, we describe the most widely used register: the Population Education Register (PER). VALIDITY AND COVERAGE: In 2008, 96% of the Danish population aged 15-69 have non-missing education information in PER. For the immigrant population born in the s…
Does More Schooling Reduce Hospitalization and Delay Mortality? New Evidence Based on Danish Twins
Schooling generally is positively associated with better health-related outcomes—for example, less hospitalization and later mortality—but these associations do not measure whether schooling causes better health-related outcomes. Schooling may in part be a proxy for unobserved endowments—including family background and genetics—that both are correlated with schooling and have direct causal effects on these outcomes. This study addresses the schoo…
Happy Doctor Makes Happy Baby? Incentivizing Physicians Improves Quality of Prenatal Care
Physician-induced demand, whereby physicians alter patient treatment for personal gain, lies at the heart of concerns about publicly provided health care. However, little is known about how payment systems affect the ultimate outcome of patient health. Exploiting a unique policy induced variation in Denmark, I investigate the impact of physician payment contracts on infant health. In a difference-in-differences framework, I find that firstborn in…
Medicine (3 works) · Danish (2 works) · Environmental health (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Actuarial science (1 works) · Birth, Development, and Health (1 works) · Census and Population Estimation (1 works) · Child and Adolescent Health (1 works) · Demography (1 works) · Demography (1 works)