-2010) panel of Italian data on hospital discharges to assess the determinants of inter-regional mobility and to distinguish … national-level) factors. Data on hospital discharges are merged with a set of variables on salient features of hospital care …; Vega and Elhorst, 2015). The model is estimated for total inter-regional patient flows and for specific types of hospital …

Typically, the error term in stochastic frontier models is assumed to be positively skewed; however, efficiency scores … inefficiency in the market. The paper discusses estimation of a stochastic frontier panel model with unobserved fixed effects. On … accurate enough for maximum likelihood estimation. Simulations assess finite sample performances of estimators and show that …

We examine the efficiency gains in health systems generated after the national roll out of basic healthcare in El …-specialized health workers improves efficiency, maintaining quality of care. …

We study the efficiency in health systems generated by community health teams, a common strategy in low- and middle … Salvador. Using a panel dataset of municipalities spanning 2009-2018 from consultation and hospital records of almost 4 million …

We study the efficiency in health systems generated by community health teams, a common strategy in low- and middle … Salvador. Using a panel dataset of municipalities spanning 2009-2018 from consultation and hospital records of almost 4 million …

depending on good structure and good process indicators with the help of a fixed effects estimation. Results: Empirical analysis …

in the hospital sector than the one found in manufacturing, with gains coming mainly from within-hospital productivity …