study how the loss of hospital-based obstetric units in over 400 counties affect maternal and infant health via a difference …-in-differences design. We find that closures lead mothers to experience a significant change in birth procedures such as inductions and C …

link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy …

and post-neonatal mortality, a reduction in fertility and, possibly on account of selection, no change in the quality of … medical professionals. Consistent with an attempt to rationalize use of hospital resources, we find a decline in specialists … and hospital beds per capita. Despite this, we see increases in hospital births, C-sections, and maternal hospitalization …

between patients affiliated with healthcare professionals and their counterpart patients not affiliated with healthcare … professionals. Using the China Labor-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS) in 2014, we identified 806 patients affiliated with healthcare … professionals and 22,788 patients not affiliated with healthcare professionals. The matched outpatient proportion of patients not …

data from patients treated with benzodiazepines, which are globally popular, effective but addictive psychotropic … medications. We find no impact on benzodiazepine use on average, but among younger patients e-prescribing increases repeat … prescription use. Younger patients' health outcomes do not improve but adverse outcomes, such as prescription drug abuse disorders …

from a subset of patients' electronic medical records, we also find that the app directs patients to the hospital and … a streamlined appointment process on hospital operations and the alignment of healthcare supply and demand. Using a … longitudinal dataset on hospital operations and a difference-in-differences model, we document that the app increases completed …

Using simulated patients to mimic nine established non-communicable and infectious diseases over 27 trials, we assess …

children born to 600000 mothers during 1970-2000 in 38 developing countries. These data are merged with macroeconomic data by … aggregate shocks and trends in unobservables within countries, while a panel of children within mother is exploited to control …. The interaction (gradient) effects are, in general, most marked for shorter women suggesting that children are more likely …