department (ED) utilization using detailed data on 150,000 patients who moved regions within Israel. We document that about half … admit patients is not explained by place-specific factors, such as differences in incentives, capacity, or diagnostic …

Medicare pricing is known to indirectly influence provider prices and care provision for non-Medicare patients; however … choices for non-Medicare patients responded to Medicare removing a ban on ambulatory surgery center (ASC) use for a specific … procedure. Following the rule change, surgeons began reallocating both Medicare and commercially insured patients to ASCs …

can attend an in-network hospital, but receive care from an out-of-network physician. Because patients do not choose their …

This paper investigates the link between gender and crime using information from a gender-based lockdown policy in … other cities and, within Bogota, the gender-based lockdown period to weeks with other lockdown policies. Our key findings … are that crime rates are higher during the gender-based lockdown policy and that this is driven by more crime involving …

What are the effects of a temporary lockdown of the economy? Do firms' deteriorating balance sheets and labor market … subsidies to firms during the lockdown. However, the effects are heterogeneous and young non-essential firms are …

dynamics of infections. We study several non-pharmaceutical interventions; e.g., i) lockdown rules, which set thresholds on the …

while minimizing the negative effects of lockdown strategies on businesses and children …

-triggered lockdown that has hampered people's physical interactions hence the ability to collect, process, and transmit soft information …. Exploiting the cross- sectional and time-series variations of lockdown, we investigate how the difficulty to use soft information … show that lockdown reduces fund investment in proximate stocks and generates a portfolio rebalancing toward distant stocks …