We study the diffusion of innovative procedures for heart attack treatment, focusing on its impact on the distributions of the cost and length of hospital stays. We perform microsimulations on a sample of 5,681 stays in French public hospitals to evaluate the impacts of adoption of new...

[spa] La dimensión sectorial de la formación de los salarios. . Un análisis comparativo de las industrias norteamericana, alemana y francesa, . por Brigitte Dormont, Jean Le Dem.. . El propósito del presente artículo es el de explorer simultáneamente las dimensiones sectoriales y...

[fre] Cette étude a pour objet d'analyser les comportements d'offre de soins des médecins libéraux français. On dispose pour cela d'un panel non cylindre de 7 925 médecins omnipraticiens ou spécialistes, des secteurs 1 ou 2, suivis sur la période 1979-1993 et représentatif de la...

[spa] Pequeña apologia de los datos de panel, . por Brigitte Dormont.. . El presente artículo tiene el propósito de ilustrar el aporte de los datos de panel a la econometría de la producción, las ventajas y las dificultades del uso de los mismos, a partir de ejemplos en donde aparencen...

On the basis of French individual data, this paper compares the effects of demographic change, changes in morbidity and changes in practices on the growth in health expenditures that occurred between 1992 and 2000. Micro simulations show that the rise in expenditures due to ageing is relatively...

The aim of this paper is to examine whether the estimation of labor demand can be affected by individual behavior heterogeneity. We shall consider an error-components model with variable-coefficients, where the coefficients are random and vary accross firms according to the values of...

The purpose of this paper is to study hospital costs in the event of introduction of a Prospective Payment System in France. We use a nested three dimensional database (stays-hospitals-years) to identify hospital unobservable heterogeneity and a transitory moral hazard component of cost...

This paper investigates on the existence of physician-induced demand (PID) for French physicians. The test is carried out for GPs and specialists, using a representative sample of 4500 French self-employed physicians over the 1979-1993 period. These physicians receive a fee-for-services (FFS)...