The impact of quality on the demand facing health care providers has important implications for the industrial organization of health care markets. In this paper we study the consumers' choice of general practitioner (GP) assuming they are unable to observe the true quality of GP services. A...

This paper investigates physician altruism toward patients’ health benefit using behavioral data from the fully incentivized laboratory experiment of Hennig-Schmidt et al. (2011). This setup identifies both physicians’ profits and patients’ health benefit resulting from medical treatment...

This dissertation consists of empirical essays within the subject of health economics. There are four essays in applied micro-econometrics and, as data in Essays 2 and 4 have a panel format, econometric methods for panel data are applied. Tobit-type models for limited dependent variables are...

This paper investigates physician altruism toward patients’ health benefit using behavioral data from Hennig-Schmidt et al.'s (2011) laboratory experiment. In the experiment, medical students in the role of physicians decide on the provision of medical services. The experimental setup allows...

In this paper we study individuals’ choice of general practitioners (GPs) utilizing revealed preferences data from the introduction of a regular general practitioner scheme in Norway. Having information on relevant travel distances, we compute decision makers’ travel costs associated with...

The impact of quality on the demand facing health care providers has important implications for the industrial organization of health care markets. In this paper we study the consumers' choice of general practitioner (GP) assuming they are unable to observe the true quality of GP services. A...

Siktemålet med denne undersøkelsen er å beskrive aktivitet og kostnader i offentlige og private røntgen- og laboratorieenheter. Laboratoriedelen av undersøkelsen er begrenset til laboratorier innen medisinsk biokjemi (klinisk kjemi). Data er hentet inn ved hjelp av registreringsskjemaer som...

Mange sykehus opplever uønskede strykninger av elektive operasjoner fordi øyeblikkelig hjelp pasienter må prioriteres. Den elektive pasienten henvises til venting til det igjen er ledig kapasitet. Skjerming av sykehusenes elektive virksomhet er derfor et tilbakevendende tema i den...

Tema for denne rapporten er fordeling av behandling, forskning og undervisningsoppgaver (FoU aktiviteter) på sykehusene. Data for forsknings- og undervisningsproduksjon fra 1999 til 2001 er undersøkt, samtidig med tall for pasientbehandling og innsatsstyrt finansiering (ISF). Tradisjonelt...