demand for public health services. If the demand is estimated correctly, one can compare its expected value to actual health … manage their expenditures. Since municipalities in Brazil are very heterogeneous, we estimate their efficiency using the … metafrontier approach (O’Donnell et al., 2008), while we estimate the demand through an equation derived from the median voter …

only establishes the minimum amount of services and facilities to provide, it may well be the case that some municipalities … go beyond the legal minimum and, consequently, might be labeled as inefficient when compared to other municipalities … which stick to the legal minimum. Second, municipalities face very different environmental conditions, which raises some …

The objective of this paper is to assess the demand for public schooling in the Brazilian municipalities within a …

account possible technology heterogeneity. Using a non-parametric metafrontier framework, efficiency and metatechnology ratio …

We measure cost efficiency of 202 Czech municipalities of extended scope in period 2003-2008. The study is the first … inefficiency in a structurally different way. From comparison of the two periods, we obtain that small municipalities improve … efficiency significantly more that large municipalities. …

We measure cost efficiency of 202 Czech municipalities of extended scope in period 2003-2008. The study is the first … inefficiency in a structurally different way. From comparison of the two periods, we obtain that small municipalities improve … efficiency significantly more that large municipalities. …

We measure cost efficiency of 202 Czech municipalities of extended scope in period 2003-2008. The study is the first … inefficiency in a structurally different way. From comparison of the two periods, we obtain that small municipalities improve … efficiency significantly more that large municipalities. -- Public spending efficiency ; Data Envelopment Analysis ; Stochastic …

neglecting its potential effects on health and human capital. Several medical studies provide evidence of important associations … between sleep deprivation and health outcomes suggesting a large impact on health care systems and individual productivity … design to identify the effects of sleep on health status, weight, and cognitive abilities. Our results suggest that delaying …

The aim of this paper is the study of Tuscan municipalities public ex- penditure efficiency, with particular attention … expenditure of the inefficient municipalities. The new evidences related to the efficiency analysis of local government described … municipalities and introducing a new indicator for the computation of the eciency scores which offer a new way of procedure. Moreover …

This paper studies spousal peer effects on the smoking behaviour and their implication for the health of children … couple. Using data from the French Health Survey 2002-2003, we identify two distinct effects linked to spousal behaviour: a … respiratory health of children is negatively affected only if both parents smoke. …