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Optimal Rationing within a Heterogeneous Population

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A government agency delegates to a provider (hospital, medical gatekeeper, school, social worker) the decision to supply a service or treatment to individual recipients. The agency does not perfectly know the distribution of individual treatment costs in the population. The single-crossing property is not satisfied when the uncertainty pertains to the dispersion of the distribution. We find that the provision of service should be distorted upwards when the first-best efficient number of recipients is sufficiently high.
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hal-01300824 , version 1 (13-04-2016)

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Philippe Choné, Stéphane Gauthier. Optimal Rationing within a Heterogeneous Population. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2017, 19 (3), pp.732-738. ⟨hal-01300824⟩
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