caa a22 4500 467896038 CHVBK 20180406152804.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00181-005-0028-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00181-005-0028-3 Heterogeneity in dentists' activity in Taiwan: an application of quantile regression [Elektronische Daten] [Miaw-Chwen Lee, Andrew Jones] The purpose of this paper is to provide new evidence on heterogeneity in dentists' activity. The heterogeneity is of particular importance because dentists' responses are likely to differ widely from high to low activity dentists. Quantile regressions provide an alternative and useful method to investigate the differential responses of dentists to various observable explanatory variables. The results reject the null hypothesis of homoskedasticity of individual dentists' responses. It is shown that time trends for dentists at higher quantiles have greater fluctuations than those at lower quantiles. The clinic-hospital gap in activity at higher quantiles is greater than at low quantiles. Clinic dentists at higher quantiles have much higher numbers of visits and numbers of treatments than those at lower quantiles, but they provide less intensity of care. Dentists in deprived areas have higher activity than those in non-deprived areas, only when they are located at higher quantiles. The results may help policy makers to focus on responsive targets in order to improve the effectiveness of their recent policy of global budgeting. Springer-Verlag, 2005 Quantile regression nationallicence Heterogeneity nationallicence Global budgets nationallicence Dental care nationallicence Taiwan nationallicence Lee Miaw-Chwen Department of Social Welfare, National Chung Cheng University, 168 University Road, 621, Min-Hsiung, Chia-Yi, Taiwan aut Jones Andrew Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York, YO10 5DD, York, UK aut Empirical Economics Springer-Verlag 31/1(2006-03-01), 151-164 0377-7332 31:1<151 2006 31 181 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-005-0028-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-005-0028-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lee Miaw-Chwen Department of Social Welfare, National Chung Cheng University, 168 University Road, 621, Min-Hsiung, Chia-Yi, Taiwan aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Jones Andrew Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York, YO10 5DD, York, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Empirical Economics Springer-Verlag 31/1(2006-03-01), 151-164 0377-7332 31:1<151 2006 31 181 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer