Technical efficiency in texas nursing facilities: A stochastic production frontier approach

摘要: A rapidly aging U. S. population is straining the resources available for long term care and increasing urgency of efficient operations in nursing homes. The scope productivity improvements can be examined by estimating a stochastic frontier production function. We apply methods maximum likelihood quantile regression to panel Texas facilities infer that average shortfall due avoidable technical inefficiency at least 8 percent perhaps as large 20 percent. Non-profit are notably less productive than comparable operated profit, industry has constant returns scale.