data on almost all hospital visits in New York from 1995 to 2011. We show that young privately insured individuals with … diagnoses that require more hospital visits in subsequent years are more likely to transition to public insurance. If we ignore …

Using administrative data on over 4 million hospital visits, we document striking gender disparities within a … government health insurance program that entitles 46 million poor individuals to free hospital care in Rajasthan, India. Females … account for only 33% of hospital visits among children and 43% among the elderly. These shares are lower for more expensive …

technology. Specifically, we test whether the expansion of Medicaid eligibility for pregnant women during the 1980s and 1990s … insurance to a substantial number of pregnant women, prior literature also finds that some newly insured women would otherwise … Medicaid expansion on a hospital's incentive to invest in technology. Using American Hospital Association data, we find that on …

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 …

, hospital services, and physician services. We will discuss the potential implications of the restructuring of the health care …

this, the UK government has pursued an active policy of hospital merger. These mergers are initiated by a regulator, acting …

Using data across countries and over time we show that women are unhappier than men in unhappiness and negative affect … days with bad mental health and more restless sleep. Women are also less satisfied with many aspects of their lives such as … reveal that women's happiness was more adversely affected by the COVID shock than men's, but also that women's happiness …

Single women in the U.S. dominated the female labor force from 1870 to 1920. Data on the home life and working … conditions of women in 1888 and 1907 enable the estimation of earnings functions. Work in the manufacturing sector for these … women was task oriented and payment was frequently by the piece. Earnings rose steeply with experience and peaked early …