In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … hospital increases the index of management quality by one third of a standard deviation and leads to a 10.7% reduction in heart … management quality - measured using a new survey tool - is strongly correlated with financial and clinical outcomes such as …

, retaining and motivating high quality workers and this should harm hospital performance. We construct hospital-level panel data … on both quality - as measured by death rates (within hospital deaths within thirty days of emergency admission for acute … hospital outcomes in terms of quality and productivity. A 10% increase in the outside wage is associated with a 4% to 8 …

study the variation in health spending on the privately insured, examine the structure of insurer-hospital contracts, and … analyze the variation in hospital prices across the nation. Health spending per privately insured beneficiary differs by a … homogenous service such as lower-limb MRIs, about a fifth of the total case-level price variation occurs within a hospital in the …