Showing 1 - 10 of 94
This dissertation consists of empirical essays within the subject of health economics. There are four essays in applied micro-econometrics and, as data in Essays 2 and 4 have a panel format, econometric methods for panel data are applied. Tobit-type models for limited dependent variables are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008546348
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980188
The paper examines the heterogeneity with respect to the impact of a financial reform - Activity Based Financing (ABF) - on hospital efficiency in Norway. Measures of technical efficiency and of cost-efficiency are considered. The data set is from a contiguous ten-year panel of 47 hospitals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025483
The impact of quality on the demand facing health care providers has important implications for the industrial organization of health care markets. In this paper we study the consumers' choice of general practitioner (GP) assuming they are unable to observe the true quality of GP services. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005245172
After 16 years of exemptions from the ban on indoor smoking in other places of work, Norway became the second country after Ireland to implement a smoke-free regime in pubs and restaurants. This paper evaluates the economic impact on the hospitality sector in a northern region with a cold...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008474181
In this paper we study individuals' choice of general practitioners (GPs) utilizing revealed preferences data from the introduction of a regular general practitioner scheme in Norway. Having information on relevant travel distances, we compute decision makers' travel costs associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004961405
A central theme in the international debate on genetic testing concerns the extent to which insurance companies should be allowed to use genetic information in their design of insurance contracts. This issue is analysed within a model with the following important feature: A person's well-being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979452
Aggregated medical spending differs widely across countries and large variations exist in the frequency and the mix of medical services provided, as well as the type of technology applied. The outcomes (mostly measured as survival rates) do not, however vary to the same extent as the spending....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979454
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979455
Formålet med dette notatet er å konstruere en indeks for å kunne belyse den norske befolknings tilgjengelighet til offentlig finansierte spesialisthelsetjenester. Geografiske variasjoner mellom alle kommunene beregnes i en tilgjengelighetsindeks, for spesialisthelsetjenester utført ved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979456