accounting for 8 per cent of total pharmaceutical sale in Norway. Novelty of the paper is to examine, with the use of a unique … natural policy experiment in Norway, to what extent the price responsiveness of prescription choices is affected when the …

Competition among physicians is widespread, but compelling empirical evidence on the impact on service provision is … (emergency centre). Using rich administrative patient- level data from Norway for 2006-14, which allow us to estimate high …

model utilized for estimation implies that physicians can choose among 10 different job packages which are a combination of …A longitudinal analysis of married physicians labor supply is carried out on Norwegian data from 1997 to 1999. The … past available options due to a taste persistence parameter in the utility function. In the estimation we take into account …

. In 1887 the mortality rates in Norway were similar to those of developing countries today. During the next 34 years …The Nordic countries have the lowest maternal and child mortality rates in the world. This has not always been the case …, Norwegian maternal mortality was halved and infant mortality fell by 40 percent. Investigating the relationship between health …

accounting for 8% of total pharmaceutical sale in Norway. With use of a unique natural policy experiment in Norway, this paper …

-adjusted mortality rates of residents of Germany, using longitudinal, annual, state-level data during the period 2000-2007. The estimates …-adjusted cancer mortality rates of residents of France, using longitudinal, annual, cancer-site-level data during the period 2002 … mortality rates, and may have accounted for as much as half of the decline …

example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large … mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we … quantify the mean mortality effect and explore its dispersion across gender, time and countries. We find that men benefit from …

that arise along the way. Special attention is given to Norway, the world's third largest oil exporter, and the role of …

outcomes to address this issue. Our application is based on a nationwide municipal electoral reform in Norway, which changed …