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...

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...

This thesis aims to explore the short-term impact of increased wages on the working hours of health personnel and their practice choice. An additional objective is to identify existing compensating differentials in the job market for health personnel.

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...

When entering the job market registered nurses (RNs) face job alternatives with differences in wages and other job attributes. Previous studies of the nursing labor market have shown large earnings differences between similar hospital and non-hospital RNs. Corresponding differences are found in...

Shift work has a documented negative impact on workers’ health and social life, effects which are compensated for with higher wages and shorter working hours. Many countries face a ‘nursing shortage’, and increasing wages is argued to lead to an increase in the short-term labor supply in...

Many registered nurses (RNs) in Norway work part-time, or in non-health jobs. The nurses’ trade organizations claim that a wage increase will increase the short-term labor supply in health care. This paper is an attempt to identify the effects of job-type specific wage increases through policy...