Browsing Working papers (SNF) by Author "Kjerstad, Egil"

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    • Eldre sykehuspasienter og det kommunale pleie- og omsorgstilbudet 

      Holmås, Tor Helge; Kjerstad, Egil; Kristiansen, Frode; Lurås, Hilde (Arbeidsnotat, Working paper, 2007-03)
      Dette notatet dokumenter resultater fra ett av flere arbeider som hadde som formål å evaluere effekter av sykehusreformen. Målet med reformen, som ble gjennomført fra 1. januar 2002, var å legge grunnlaget for en helhetlig ...

    • Free choice, waiting time and length of stay in Norwegian hospitals 

      Kjerstad, Egil; Kristiansen, Frode (Working paper, Working paper, 2005-04)
      In many countries’ public health care systems patients now have choice of hospital. Hospitals compete by offering quality services. In Norway, freedom of choice was expected to reduce waiting time for planned admissions. ...

    • Long term care and hospital length of stay for elderly patients 

      Holmås, Tor Helge; Kjerstad, Egil; Kristiansen, Frode; Lurås, Hilde (Working paper, Working paper, 2007-04)
      The proportion of elderly people in the population is increasing and old patients’ bed occupancy rate in hospitals increases as a fraction of total bed occupancy. Because old patients, on average, are frailer than other ...

    • A low-key social insurance reform : treatment effects for back pain patients in Norway 

      Aakvik, Arild; Holmås, Tor Helge; Kjerstad, Egil (Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-04)
      This paper estimates treatment effects for back pain patients using observational data from a low-key insurance reform in Norway. Using a latent variable model we estimate the average treatment effects (ATE), the average ...

    • Skill formation among vocational rehabilitation clients : public policy vs private incentives 

      Aakvik, Arild; Kjerstad, Egil (Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-04)
      In this paper we analyse individual vocational rehabilitation clients’ decisions to enter active training or not. Although the Government pays the direct costs of training, the composition of the total costs of training ...