• norsk
    • English
  • English 
    • norsk
    • English
  • Login
View Item 
  •   Home
  • Research centres and projects
  • Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies
  • Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies - Working Papers
  • View Item
  •   Home
  • Research centres and projects
  • Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies
  • Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies - Working Papers
  • View Item
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

The relationship between socioeconomic status and waiting time among elderly men in Norway

Carlsen, Fredrik; Kaarbøe, Oddvar
Working paper
Thumbnail
View/Open
WP 12-20012 Carlsen and Kaarboe.pdf (267.8Kb)
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/1956/7822
Date
2012-12
Metadata
Show full item record
Collections
  • Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies - Working Papers [231]
Abstract
We investigate whether socioeconomic status affects hospital waiting times for elderly men when controls for severity and supply/choice variables are included. Socioeconomic status is measured by small area level education. We estimate a series of regressions explaining waiting time as a function of education level. We find that patients of different socioeconomic status are treated differently when only fixed effects for birth year is included. When we control for medical condition the effect increases and is large: male patients with tertiary education wait 48 % shorter than other patients. When we include fixed effects for local hospital, the estimated effect on waiting time of tertiary education falls from 48 % to 30 %. Thus, the negative correlation between waiting time and education level across local hospitals explain a little more than one third of the educational gradient in waiting time, whereas variation between the waiting time and education level across patients within local hospitals explain about almost two thirds of the gradient. When we analyse the educational gradient within local hospitals we find that travel distance and the quality of primary health care explain the gradient. Hence, we do not find evidence of discrimination against elderly men without tertiary education.
Publisher
Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies
Series
Working paper 12/2012
Copyright
Copyright the authors. All rights reserved

Contact Us | Send Feedback

Privacy policy
DSpace software copyright © 2002-2019  DuraSpace

Service from  Unit
 

 

Browse

ArchiveCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsDocument TypesJournalsThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsDocument TypesJournals

My Account

Login

Statistics

View Usage Statistics

Contact Us | Send Feedback

Privacy policy
DSpace software copyright © 2002-2019  DuraSpace

Service from  Unit