help. This hypothesis is examined for the case of demand for hospital care which covers the largest part of public … insurance expenditures. The paper applies various methods for count data analysis of the frequency of hospital trips. Contrary …

Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of … likely to die in the hospital than the whites. We analyze the determinants of in-hospital mortality at Touro using Oaxaca … based on the selective hospital admission of slaves. …

A Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) in the health-care sector is used to test the loss aversion theory that is derived … paper is the first to use a DCE to test the loss aversion theory. A DCE appears to be a highly suitable tool for this … with non-tangible attributes. A health-care event is used for empirical illustration: The loss aversion theory is tested …

role in explaining the effect of ownership status on hospital quality. When age, sex, diagnoses and co-morbidities are held …

absence from work, we also consider effects on doctor/hospital visits and subjective health indicators. We also add to the … reform reduced the average number of days spent in hospital by almost half a day, but we cannot find robust evidence for …

outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

economic importance of the jack-of-all-trades theory. …

for social custom effects in the determination of union membership. Using panel data for Germany, we find evidence for …