Assessing health efficiency across countries with a two-step and bootstrap analysis

Regressing Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) output efficiency scores on nondiscretionary variables, with a two-stage DEA/Tobit and bootstrap procedures, we show that health inefficiency in Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries is related to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per head, education level, obesity and smoking habits.

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Year of publication:	2011
Authors:	Afonso, Antonio ; Aubyn, Miguel St.
Published in:	Applied Economics Letters. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 1350-4851. - Vol. 18.2011, 15, p. 1427-1430
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis Journals

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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