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来源IDDP9939
DP9939 Privatization and Quality: Evidence from Elderly Care in Sweden
Giancarlo Spagnolo
发表日期2014-04-13
出版年2014
语种英语
摘要Non-contractible quality dimensions are at risk of degradation when the provision of public services is privatized. However, privatization may increase quality by fostering performance-improving innovation, particularly if combined with increased competition. We assemble a large data set on elderly care services in Sweden between 1990 and 2009 and estimate how opening to private provision affected mortality rates ? an important and not easily contractible quality dimension ? using a difference-in-difference-in-difference approach. The results indicate that privatization and the associated increase in competition significantly improved non-contractible quality as measured by mortality rates. It also reduced the cost per resident, although left total cost unaffected.
主题Industrial Organization ; Public Economics
关键词Competition Incomplete contracts Limited enforcement Mortality Nursing homes Outsourcing Performance measurement Privatization Procurement Public services
URLhttps://cepr.org/publications/dp9939
来源智库Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型智库出版物
条目标识符http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/538773
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Giancarlo Spagnolo. DP9939 Privatization and Quality: Evidence from Elderly Care in Sweden. 2014.
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