Using newly digitized U.S. city-level data on hospitals, we explore how pandemics alter preferences for healthcare. We … increased their count of hospitals by 8-10 percent in the years after the pandemic. This effect persisted to 1960 and was driven … by increases in non-governmental hospitals. Growth responded most in richer cities, exacerbating existing inequalities in …

medicine in contemporary society, little is known about how hospitals and modern medicine contributed to this health transition … Endowment in the early twentieth century. The Endowment helped communities build and expand hospitals, obtain state …. We further provide evidence on the mechanisms that enabled these effects, finding that Endowment-supported hospitals …

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women …. Considerable evidence is found that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …

Although women earn approximately 50 percent of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) bachelor's degrees …

women and men during US economic development. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, female and male BMIs … weights heavier than workers in other occupations. Women and men from the Northeast and Middle Atlantic had higher BMIs and …

for public hospitals in France. We predict that the number of patient admissions should increase in public hospitals by … more than in private clinics and that the increase in admissions is stronger in public hospitals more exposed to …

This study investigates hospitals’ dynamic incentives to select patients when hospitals are remunerated according to a … spiral of prices is possible which induces hospitals to focus on low-severity cases. For high altruism, dynamic price …