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Type:
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Working Paper |
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Author:
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Ferris, James; Graddy, Elizabeth |
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Date:
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1987 |
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Agency:
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School of Public Administration, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5679
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New Commons
Social Organization |
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Subject(s):
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health care
contracts
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Abstract:
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"Once a local government chooses to externally produce a health service, it faces the decision of the appropriate sector with which to contract. Local government scan contract with other governments, for-profit firms, and/or nonprofit organizations. This sector choice decision is modeled as a function of sector differences in the availability of producers and in the potential for cost reduction in service delivery, and different constituency preference s with respect to sector choice. The model is estimated with a multinomial logit analysis on a national sample of local government health contracts. The empirical analysis reveals the importance of availability, cost concerns, and constituency preferences in the sector choice decision for local health services."
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