WAITING TIMES AND SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS. EVIDENCE FROM NORWAY
研究挪威公立医院中，收入和教育水平是否影响患者等待时间，在控制病情严重度和医院条件后发现几乎没有歧视证据。
We investigate whether socioeconomic status, measured by income and education, affects waiting time when controls for severity and hospital-specific conditions are included. We also examine which aspects of the hospital supply (attachment to local hospital, traveling time, or choice of hospital) matter most for unequal treatment of different socioeconomic groups. The study uses administrative data from all elective inpatient and outpatient stays in somatic hospitals in Norway. The main results are that we find very little indication of discrimination with regard to income and education when both severity and aspects of hospital supply are controlled for. This result holds for both men and women.