P Taubman
P Taubman
A major and well-recognized difficulty in estimating the effects of education on earnings is that the more educated are likely to be more able, irrespective of education. If ability also determines earnings and is not controlled, ordinary l...
The demand for dental care: a study of consumption and household production [0.03%]
口腔医疗需求研究：消费与家庭生产的角度分析
A G Holtmann,E O Olsen Jr
A G Holtmann
Within the context of a Becker-type consumer's choice model, this paper reports an empirical study of the demand for dental care for approximately 1,000 households. The unique feature of the study is that waiting time and travel time as wel...
Factors affecting the incomes of men and women physicians: an exploratory analysis [0.03%]
影响男女医生收入的因素：一项探索性分析
B H Kehrer
B H Kehrer
Income differences between men and women physicians are analyzed using data from the Americal Medical Association's 1973 Eighth Periodic Survey of Physicians. While women tend to possess less favorable professional characteristics in terms ...
C M Lindsay
C M Lindsay
F Sloan
F Sloan
T M Smeeding
T M Smeeding
In recording its poverty statistics, the U.S. Census Bureau ignores the impact of in-kind transfers on the extent of poverty. In this paper, we estimate that when in-kind food, housing, and medical care transfers are counted and measured at...
J Bishop
J Bishop
A binomial logit model is fitted to the college attendance behavior of 27,046 male high-school juniors in 1960, divided into 20 subgroups defined by student ability and family income. Tuition, high admissions standards, travel costs, and ro...
P B Manchester
P B Manchester
M V Pauly
M V Pauly
In order to test the hypothesis that medical staff physicians affect hospital behavior, this paper relates cost data for a sample of non-major-teaching, short-term hospitals to information on the characteristics of the medical staff which t...
B Friedman
B Friedman
Government controls on availability of physicians and hospital resources can counteract some undesired aggregate consequences of reimbursement insurance. Given aggregate controls, many important questions arise concerning nonprice rationing...