We study whether the information patients have about physician quality when they choose a physician, influences their probability of switching physicians. We also study whether a physician with unfavorable characteristics, as perceived by patients (ex post), can compensate for patient switching...

Fram mot 2050 blir det flere eldre, og en høyere andel eldre i befolkningen enn det som er tilfelle i dag. Ifølge befolkningsframskrivinger vil antall personer over 67 år fordobles de nærmeste 50 år og for aldersgruppen over 90 år blir veksten enda sterkere. Siden utgiftene til helse- og...

Fastlegene i de tidligere forsøkskommunene har i 2003 kortere lister enn de hadde da fastlegeforsøket ble igangsatt i 1993. Listene er imidlertid fremdeles lengre i disse kommunene enn i landet for øvrig. Samtidig ser vi at gjennomsnittslegen i forsøkskommunene har færre ledige plasser på...

Kommunene har ansvar for å skaffe leger som kan utføre arbeid ved sykehjem, helsestasjon og skolehelsetjeneste, samt samfunnsmedisinske oppgaver som planlegging og beredskapsarbeid i forbindelse med ulykkeshåndtering, miljørettet helsevern, smittevern og administrative oppgaver. Det...

Fordi paneldata gir oss muligheter til å kontrollere for individspesifikk og/eller tidsspesifikk heterogenitet er det mange fordeler ved å benytte denne typen data i økonometriske undersøkelser (Biørn, 2000). Hensikten med denne rapporten er ikke resultater per se, det sentrale er snarere...

When the list patient system was introduced in Norway in 2001, the population was requested to choose a general practitioner (GP). Prior to the reform they were asked to rank their three most preferred GPs in an entry form. Information from the entry form was input for the algorithm1 that...

On June 1, 2001 a reform took place in Norwegian general practice. This implied some advantages of importance to empirical analysis. First, a new organisation and a new payment system were introduced, which makes it possible to perform before-after analysis. Second, the GPs' preferred list-sizes...

The purpose of this paper is to gain more knowledge concerning individuals’ preferences for alternative GPs within a municipality. We have data on the population’s first, second and third choice of GPs. The data stem from the entry form the inhabitant filled in as a result of the...

We study the interaction between patient shortage and patients' waiting time to get an appointment. From a theoretical model we predict that physicians experiencing a shortage of patients offer their patients a shorter waiting time than their unconstrained colleagues. This happens because a...

The objective of this paper is to demonstrate that micro data is fundamental for the study of income motivated behaviour among general practitioners (GPs). We argue that a GP who experiences a shortage of patients in a mixed capitation and fee for service payment system, is likely to have a more...