hospital-specific trends, we find that unionized hospitals also outperform hospitals without any union election in the same 12 …We estimate the impact of nurse unions on health care quality using patient discharge data and the universe of hospital … unionizations in California between 1996 and 2005. We find that hospitals with a successful union election outperform hospitals with …

– the in-hospital mortality rate of insured heart attack patients. I employ panel data models using patient discharge and … hospital financial data from California (1999-2006). My results indicate that uninsured patients have an economically … hospitals change their provision of care to insured heart attack patients in response to reduced revenues, the evidence I have …

We analyze the efficiency and productivity growth of a representative sample of Portuguese hospitals from 1997 to 2004 … change. The results show that, on average, Portuguese hospitals did not experience productivity growth during the period … analyzed. In addition, the incidence of positive productivity growth across Portuguese hospitals was remarkably low. …

The market for hospital registered nurses (RNs) is often offered as an example of “classic” monopsony, while a “new … declining in markets with increased hospital system concentration. Measures of new monopsony use data on mobility to proxy …

This paper uses an unusual administrative dataset covering the universe of French hospitals to consider hospital … for a number of measures of hospital output. NFP hospitals serve as a benchmark, being very similar to Public hospitals … employment: this is consistently higher in public hospitals than in Not-For-Profit (NFP) or private hospitals, even controlling …

Although it has long been conjectured that having physicians in leadership positions is valuable for hospital … are collected on the top-100 U.S. hospitals in 2009, as identified by a widely-used media-generated ranking of quality, in … executive officers of these hospitals are then traced by hand. The CEOs are classified into physicians and non …

Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of … free and enslaved patients. Despite a higher mortality rate in the general population, slaves were significantly less … likely to die in the hospital than the whites. We analyze the determinants of in-hospital mortality at Touro using Oaxaca …

without private medical insurance, the larger their winnings, the more likely they are to obtain private overnight hospital …