Picone, Gabriel A.; Sloan, Frank A.; Chou, Shin-Yi; … - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 85 (2003) 1, pp. 51-62
This study investigates whether higher input use per stay in the hospital (treatment intensity) and longer length of stay improve outcomes of care. We allow for endogeneity of intensity and length of stay by estimating a quasi-maximum-likelihood discrete factor model, where the distribution of...