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来源类型 | Working papers |
规范类型 | 论文 |
The impact of the institutional form on the cost efficiency of nursing homes | |
Di Giorgio, Laura; Filippini, Massimo; Masiero, Giuliano | |
发表日期 | 2012-03 |
出版者 | Facoltà di scienze economiche, Università della Svizzera italiana |
出版年 | 2012 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | In Switzerland, nursing home services are mainly provided by regulated public and private nonprofit organizations. Some of them are created by local governments as foundations. This provides a unique setting to analyze the impact of the institutional form on the performance of nursing homes. We propose a model where the institutional form is represented as a legal constraint which affects managers in the decison-making process. Considering a sample of 44 Swiss Italian nursing homes over a 7-years period (1999-2005), we then disentangle persistent inefficiency due to differences in the institutional form from unobserved heterogeneity. The applied estimation strategy provides more accurate estimates of the impact of the institutional form on nursing homes efficiency, as compared to previous studies. Our results suggest that governmental nursing homes are more costly than private and public foundations. These results are consistent across different model specifications. |
主题 | Constant inefficiency ; Unobserved heterogeneity ; Nursing homes ; Nonprofit ; Institutional form |
URL | https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/63623 |
来源智库 | Centre for Energy Policy and Economics (Switzerland) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/266701 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Di Giorgio, Laura,Filippini, Massimo,Masiero, Giuliano. The impact of the institutional form on the cost efficiency of nursing homes. 2012. |
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