Does Internet Use Affect Individuals’ Medical Service Satisfaction? Evidence from China

Does Scale of Public Hospitals Affect Bargaining Power? Evidence From Japan

Background Many of public hospitals in Japan have had a deficit for a long time. Japanese local governments have been encouraging public hospitals to use group purchasing of drugs to benefit from the economies of scale, and increase their bargaining power for obtaining discounts in drug purchasing, thus improving their financial situation. In this study, we empirically investigate whether or no...

Mobile Internet Service – User Experience, Satisfaction and Continual Use Intention

The purpose of this paper is to develop a research model that investigates the effects of user experience with mobile Internet service on user satisfaction with and continual usage intention of the service. The proposed research model uses the concept of cognitive absorption to conceptualize flow experience as the optimal holistic experience that users feel when using mobile Internet service [1...

Internet Use and Internet Addiction Disorder among Medical Students: A Case from China

Internet is used more and more widely and extensively among university students. In order to keep abreast of Internet use among medical students, provide basis for cultivating correct and reasonable Internet use habits of them, based on expert consultation and literature review, a “Questionnaire on University Students’ Internet Behavior” is designed by the author, method of randomly stratified ...

Does Broadband Internet Affect Fertility?∗

The spread of high-speed Internet epitomizes the digital revolution, affecting several aspects of our life. Using German panel data, we test whether the availability of broadband Internet influences fertility choices in a low-fertility setting, which is well-known for the difficulty to combine work and family life. We exploit a strategy devised by Falck et al. (2014) to obtain causal estimates ...

How does neighborhood design affect life satisfaction? Evidence from Twin Cities