Estimating hospital costs with a general
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Tong Li; Robert Rosenman
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Article
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2001
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract This paper estimates a longβrun hospital cost function with multiple outputs and inputs using a panel data set from Washington State hospitals during 1988β1993. We find that with our data the generalized Leontief function is more appropriate than a translog for estimating hospital cost