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Relative Efficiency, Scale Effect, and Scope Effect of Public Hospitals : Evidence from Australia
Wang, Jian - 2007
Using the 1997-1998 New South Wales public-hospitals comparison data, we investigate the hospital-level inefficiency by … errors of the outputs of the hospital. The main findings are: First, inefficiency accounts for 9.3% of total hospital costs …
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Do Market Incentives in the Hospital Industry Affect Subjective Health Perceptions? Evidence from the Italian Pps-Drg Reform
Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2014
in hospitalization and day hospital treatments, coupled with a clear decrease in the access to emergency services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043677
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Infections, Accidents and Nursing Overtime in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit : A Bayesian Semiparametric Panel Data Logit Model
Beltempo, Marc - 2020
The paper investigates the effects of nursing overtime on nosocomial infections and medical accidents in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The literature lacks clear evidence on this issue and we conjecture that this may be due to empirical and methodological factors. We thus focus on a...
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Children and Parents Time Use : Empirical Evidence on Investment in Human Capital in France, Italy and Germany
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Fontainha, Elsa; Monfardini, Chiara - 2021
countries (France, Italy and Germany) on the link between time allocation by parents and time allocation by youngsters … youngsters allocation of time to socializing and to reading and studying activities, with Italy standing out as the country where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324799
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When, Where and How to Perform Efficiency Estimation
Badunenko, Oleg - 2011
In this paper we compare two flexible estimators of technical efficiency in a cross-sectional setting: the … examples. We find that the reliability of efficiency scores critically hinges upon the ratio of the variation in efficiency to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120128
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Analyzing Cost Efficient Production Behavior Under Economies of Scope : A Nonparametric Methodology
Cherchye, L. - 2006
. We illustrate our methodology by examining the cost efficiency of research programs in Economics and Business Management … cost efficiency differences between universities within specific specialization areas, even when using shadow prices to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779393
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The Three I's of Public Schools : Irrelevant Inputs, Insufficient Resources and Inefficiency
Henderson, Daniel J. - 2016
We examine the educational production function and efficiency of public school districts in Illinois. Using … related) differs substantially from our efficiency scores, and standard parametric approaches drastically underestimate school … efficiency. We discuss the policy implications of our results …
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Robust Estimation of Wage Dispersion with Censored Data : An Application to Occupational Earnings Risk and Risk Attitudes
Pollmann, Daniel - 2012
We present a semiparametric method to estimate group-level dispersion, which is particularly effective in the presence of censored data. We apply this procedure to obtain measures of occupation-specific wage dispersion using top-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment...
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Endogeneity and Non-Response Bias in Treatment Evaluation : Nonparametric Identification of Causal Effects by Instruments
Fricke, Hans - 2015
This paper proposes a nonparametric method for evaluating treatment effects in the presence of both treatment endogeneity and attrition/non-response bias, using two instrumental variables. Making use of a discrete instrument for the treatment and a continuous instrument for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013571
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Treatment Evaluation with Multiple Outcome Periods Under Endogeneity and Attrition
Frölich, Markus - 2014
This paper develops a nonparametric methodology for treatment evaluation with multiple outcome periods under treatment endogeneity and missing outcomes. We use instrumental variables, pre-treatment characteristics, and short-term (or intermediate) outcomes to identify the average treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057921