This paper analyzes the technical efficiency of group home care for the developmentally disabled in the Detroit metropolitan area. Linear programming methods are used to construct a production frontier that allows measurement of relative technical efficiency among homes in the sample. A...

The gross price elasticity of demand for medical care is decomposed into two separate "observable" components: the medical care gross price elasticity of insurance choice and the cost-sharing elasticity of medical care. When consumers alter their choice of health-care plans, the price...

Economics departments in the United States are ranked using the criterion of publication in a set of eight leading journals. The publication period is 1990-94 inclusive, and faculty assignments to departments are for fall semester 1995. The ranking is compared with the publication-based rankings...