Data and Code for: Administration above Administrators: The Changing Technology of Healthcare Management

This paper measure the costs and types of administrative inputs in health care. We use data on labor and non-labor inputs by industry and categorize them as administrative or not. We find that non-labor inputs are a critical part of administrative spending, over and above labor inputs. Trends in non-labor administrative input spending have differed dramatically from that of labor input spending for hospitals over the last 20 years. Hospitals have substituted away from office workers, and towards externally purchased inputs. The share of managers and technical workers in administration has grown. The technology of healthcare administration is changing.