Efficiency potential and determinants of efficiency: an聽analysis of the care for the elderly sector in Norway
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- 作者：Lars-Erik Borge and Marianne Haraldsvik
- 关键词：Efficiency ; Care for the elderly ; Data envelopment analysis ; Determinants of efficiency ; Bootstrap
- 刊名：International Tax and Public Finance
- 出版时间：August, 2009
- 出版年：2009
- 期刊代码：73_09275940
- 类别：bio
- 卷：16
- 期：4
- 页码：468-486
- 数据来源：sp
摘要
The paper provides an analysis of efficiency in the care for the elderly sector in Norway. In a first step, we perform DEA analysis to calculate the degree of efficiency in each municipality and the national level efficiency potential. The analysis reveals substantial variation in efficiency across municipalities, and the national level efficiency potential is calculated to 10%. Tobit regressions and recently developed bootstrap methods are applied in a second stage to explain the variation in efficiency. The second stage analyses indicate that high fiscal capacity, a low degree of user charge financing, and a fragmented local council are associated with low efficiency.