Patients who receive more hospital treatment tend to have worse underlying health, confounding estimates of the returns … to such care. This paper compares the costs and benefits of extending the length of hospital stay following delivery … entitle newborns to a minimum number of hospital quot;days,quot; counted as the number of midnights in care. A newborn …

duration in West Germany using censored quantile regressions. We analyze unemployment periods of more than 91,000 observations … unemployment duration. We conclude that work history variables are the ones most suitable in characterizing the unemployment … duration of an individual. From a methodological point of view, it is interesting that some regression coefficients have a …