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Does The Market Reward Quality? : Evidence from India
Wagner, Zachary - 2019
studies in India that provide unique insight into this issue. First, we use a discrete choice experiment to show that patients …
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Quality and Accountability in Healthcare Delivery : Audit-Study Evidence from Primary Care in India
Das, Jishnu - 2015
We present the first direct evidence on the relative quality of public and private healthcare in a low-income setting, using a unique set of audit studies. We sent standardized (fake) patients to rural primary care providers in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, and recorded the quality of care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457263
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Does Management Matter in Schools
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457998
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The Relationship Dilemma : Organizational Culture and the Adoption of Credit Scoring Technology in Indian Banking
Mishra, Prachi - 2019
Credit scoring was introduced in India in 2007. We study the pace of its adoption by new private banks (NPBs) and state … banks suggests that neither bank size nor government ownership fully explains adoption patterns. Organizational culture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479645
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Government Guarantees and Bank Vulnerability during a Crisis : Evidence from an Emerging Market
Acharya, Viral V. - 2019
pre-crisis data, in order to study the impact of government guarantees on bank performance during a crisis. Using bank … private sector bank branches in districts with greater exposure to state-owned banks experienced deposit withdrawals and … shortening of deposit maturity. In contrast, nearby vulnerable state-owned bank branches grew their deposit base and increased …
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The economics of school choice
Hoxby, Caroline M. (ed.) - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001686747
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The Quality of Health Care Providers
McClellan, Mark - 1999
Obtaining better information on the quality of health care providers is one of the most pressing issues in health policy today. In this paper we (1) develop a new method for measuring quality of care that overcomes the key limitations of available quality measures, and (2) apply this method to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471457
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Comparing Hospital Quality at For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Hospitals
McClellan, Mark - 1999
Do not-for-profit hospitals provide better care than for-profit hospitals? We compare patient outcomes in for-profit and not-for-profit hospitals between 1984 and 1994 using a new method for estimating differences across hospitals that yields far more accurate estimates of hospital quality than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471460
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The Supply of Quality in Child Care Centers
Blau, David M. - 1999
We use data from a sample of day care centers to estimate the relationships between cost and the quality of the child care service provided, and between revenue and quality. We use a measure of child care quality derived from an instrument designed by developmental psychologists. This measure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471564
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Merchants of Death : The Effect of Credit Supply Shocks on Hospital Outcomes
Aghamolla, Cyrus; Karaca-Mandic, Pinar; Li, Xuelin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
the banks that they borrow from, we use bank stress tests as exogenous shocks to credit access for hospitals that have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510587