Profit Incentives and Technical Efficiency in the Production of Nursing Home Care

John Nyman () and Dennis L Bricker

The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1989, vol. 71, issue 4, 586-94

Abstract: In recent years, nursing home care expenditures have approached one percent of GNP. Their growth is a major contributor to the escalating costs of health care. In this article, the authors analyze a sample of nursing homes from Wisconsin to determine the characteristics of the efficiently operated nursing homes. Data envelopment analysis is used to calculate efficiency scores for the various nursing homes in the sample. The authors then use regression analysis to investigate the determinants of efficiency, holding constant the characteristics of the output. They find that for-profit firms have significantly higher efficiency scores. Copyright 1989 by MIT Press.

Date: 1989
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (48)

Downloads: (external link)
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0034-6535%2819891 ... O%3B2-C&origin=repec full text (application/pdf)
Access to full text is restricted to JSTOR subscribers. See http://www.jstor.org for details.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:tpr:restat:v:71:y:1989:i:4:p:586-94

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://mitpressjour ... rnal/?issn=0034-6535

Access Statistics for this article

The Review of Economics and Statistics is currently edited by Pierre Azoulay, Olivier Coibion, Will Dobbie, Raymond Fisman, Benjamin R. Handel, Brian A. Jacob, Kareen Rozen, Xiaoxia Shi, Tavneet Suri and Yi Xu

More articles in The Review of Economics and Statistics from MIT Press
Bibliographic data for series maintained by The MIT Press ().