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Recent studies examining the relationship between legislative majorities and state budgets have presented mixed results. We provide new insight on this relationship by employing stochastic frontier analysis to model the maximum potential budgets that could be feasibly produced given a set of...
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We examine a panel of divinity school enrollments to explore the motivations of prospective clergy considering post-graduate training in preparation for the ministry. Employing the fixed-effects within estimator allows us to see pecuniary motivations while controlling for the differences between...
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This research investigates the relationship between public policy and firm deaths in the U.S. States. Policies that promote firm births may increase or decrease firm deaths. We use components of the Economic Freedom of North America index (EFNA) as a metric to evaluate the relationship between...
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ABSTRACT. In developing countries with high levels of corruption, people are often forced into small-business venturing or survivalist entrepreneurship because larger, more efficient firms do not exist. In developed countries, however, low corruption means that people choose entrepreneurship as...
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We show that review platforms reduce healthcare interruptions for patients looking for a new physician. We employ a difference-in-differences strategy using physician retirements as a 'disruptive shock' that forces patients to find a new physician. We combine insurance claims data with...
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Background: Increasing the productivity and efficiency of physician practices could help relieve the rapid growth of U.S. healthcare costs and the expected physician shortage. Radiology practices are an attractive specific focus for research on practices’ productivity and efficiency because...
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As the cost of both chronic care and diagnostic imaging continue to rise, it is important to consider methods of cost containment in these areas. Therefore, it seems important to study the relationship of self-referral for imaging and the cost of care of chronic illnesses. Previous studies,...
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Self-referral for imaging services occurs when a physician sends patients to receive an imaging procedure from a device that the physician owns or leases. Advocates argue that this shortens the duration of illness and lowers costs. For twenty common combinations of medical conditions and types...
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This paper presents the results of a stochastic frontier analysis on the technical efficiency of school trust timber production in Mississippi. The state of Mississippi has a 200-year history of managing public trust lands designated to generate funds for public schools. Local school boards...
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We show that review platforms reduce healthcare interruptions for patients looking for a new physician. We employ a difference-in-differences strategy using physician retirements as a “disruptive shock” that forces patients to find a new physician. We combine insurance claims data with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012642659