Scale economies in college and university student health centers: An econometric analysis

This study estimates economies of scale for the provision of health care in college and university student health centers. Services at student health centers are available for approximately 10 million of the students enrolled in 1,500 institutions of higher learning in the United States. Estimated costs of these services is greater than {dollar}1 billion annually. A translog cost function is employed to analyze data from a random sample of 80 American College Health Association member institutions across the country. The results indicate that there are economies of scale in the production of student health care at levels of output up to the vicinity of 85 to 92 student visits on average per day, and diseconomies of scale thereafter.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Economics

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Year

1991

Author dc:creator

• Brady, MaryAnn

Contributors dc:contributor

• Djeto Assane

Statement dc:rights

• IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

https://oasis.library.unlv.edu/rtds/162

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:oasis.library.unlv.edu:rtds-1161