using a sample of 3,979 neonates which represents over 84,846 observations (infant/days).We use a semiparametric panel data …

emergency cases that do not all require hospital care. Many countries have responded by introducing alternative facilities that … area of a hospital reduces hospital outpatient procedures and admissions and that this is associated with improved hospital … cases going to hospital but rather from hospital resources being re-focused. In a significant departure from related …

We provide an analysis of the effect of physician payment methods on their hospital patients' length of stay and risk … introduced an optional mixed compensation (MC) scheme for specialist physicians working in hospital. This scheme combines a fixed … patients' health by more than a critical level, they will stay more days in hospital over the period. At the empirical level …

Panel Survey. We contribute to the existing literature by exploring the relationship between a wide range of aspects of …

The maximum likelihood estimator for the regression coefficients, β, in a panel binary response model with fixed … study document favourable small sample properties. In an application to hospital data on patient readmission rates under the … 2010 Affordable Care Act, we find that hospital fixed effects are strongly correlated across different treatment categories …

a negative relationship between unemployment duration and the subsequent job duration. Restricting the sample to job … even greater negative effect of unemployment duration on the following job duration. The importance lies not only in the … duration of unemployment. If job seekers keep a high reservation wage and a low search intensity because of the benefits of …

-mixed proportional-hazard approach with three durations: the waiting time until treatment, the untreated duration from the baseline, and … the treated duration from the treatment timing. To implement the proposal, we use semiparametric piecewise … subsidy effects on unemployment duration to find about 11.1 month reduction …

-parametrically identify the effect of both benefit level and potential duration in the regression kink (RK) design using kinks in the schedule …-to-employment profile brought about by exogenous variations in the benefit level as well as in the benefit duration. I then use these … estimates to calibrate the welfare effects of an increase in UI benefit level and in UI potential duration …