This article explores the impact of language proficiency on international trade by using panel data analysis. To do so, we construct a time-variant test-score-based measure of common language. Controlling for the standard gravity model variables, we find strong empirical evidence that English...

The expansion of home health care could allow the elderly to gain easy access to medical services in rural areas. Although the most of the previous studies focus on the impact of the use of home health care on hospital discharges or the determinants of geographical variation, we examine entry,...