This paper investigates the relationship between health care market structure and utilization of preventive care …. We have yet to provide a clear answer to the question of how market structure affects the utilization of preventive care … utilization of mammogram and Pap-smear tests. In addition, an unusual data source, insurance claims data, rather than surveys or …

This paper introduces an econometric model to explain the determinants of expenditure in ship maintenance and repair …. As expected from theory, the empirical results show that maintenance expenditure is positively related to utilization … result is that the elasticities of maintenance expenses with respect to utilization, age, and size at least in 1999 were …

This paper derives a model of maintenance expenditures from an analytical framework in which maintenance, utilization … relevant literature as important determinants of maintenance expenditures. Also the model yields sharp sign predictions for the …’s age, salvage value and intensity of utilization, and c) Italian cars are most demanding in maintenance outlays, followed …

We draw on three strands of literature dealing with utilization, maintenance, and scrapping in order to analyze the … intensity of its utilization and maintenance; second, by ex-panding on the range of explainable operating policies to allow for … determinants should allow for this simultaneity. …

We draw on three strands of literature dealing with utilization, maintenance, and scrapping in order to analyze the … intensity of its utilization and maintenance; second, by ex-panding on the range of explainable operating policies to allow for … determinants should allow for this simultaneity …

influenced indirectly, through parental investments in education and earnings capacity, whereas the wealth holdings of families …

evolution of wealth inequality in Canada between 1984 and 1999. Our main findings are as follows: 1) Wealth inequality has … increased between 1984 and 1999; 2) the growth in wealth inequality has been associated with substantial declines in real … average and median wealth for recent immigrants and young couples with children; 3) real median wealth and real average wealth …

Five waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), 1985-1989 including both wealth supplements, are used to …