We study the impact of competition on primary care physicians’specialty referrals. Our data come from a Norwegian survey in 2008-9 and Statistics Norway. From the data we construct three measures of competition the number of open primary physician practices with and without population...

Empirical studies show that years of schooling are positively correlated with good health, and that education is better correlated with health than with variables like occupation and income. This can be explained in different ways as the implication may go from education to health, from health...

Rapporten inngår i prosjektet "Resultatevaluering av Omsorgsplan 2015", i delprosjekt B. Dette prosjektet har som mål å studere kommunenes tilpasning av drifts- og investeringsnivået innenfor omsorgstjenestene ved en nærmere beskrivelse av drifts- og investeringsnivået i perioden fram til...