Date of Completion
12-10-2015
Embargo Period
6-6-2016
Keywords
Healthcare, Efficiency, DEA, Technical Change, Productivity Growth, OECD
Major Advisor
Dennis Heffley
Associate Advisor
Subhash Ray
Associate Advisor
Richard Langlois
Associate Advisor
David Simon
Field of Study
Economics
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy
Open Access
Open Access
Abstract
This dissertation aims to measure the impact of technical change on OECD Healthcare in a multi-stage framework and identify the different sources of outcome losses to allow for comprehensive policy implications within a diverse dataset including countries from a large variety of development levels facing different healthcare issues. We adopt an output-oriented DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) methodology to obtain the technical efficiencies in production and provision. Data used in this study is mainly obtained from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Health Data 2013 and consists of 34 OECD countries and 12 years between 2000 and 2011.
Recommended Citation
Bekaroglu, Can, "A Multi-Stage Efficiency Analysis of OECD Healthcare and the Impact of Technical Change" (2015). Doctoral Dissertations. 977.
https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/dissertations/977