We measure one aspect of how access to emergency care through ambulance services changes for patients when a hospital … period immediately after the hospital closes. We find urban patients in zip codes where a hospital closes have a small change … to transport a patient from the location of the incident to the hospital. The impact on rural Medicare-eligible patients …

The present paper provides new evidence that hospital delivery can significantly lower child mortality risks … 2005 (that enhanced emergency obstetric care in women friendly environment) to identify the causal effect of hospital … welfare clinic boosts hospital delivery likelihood, which in turn tends to lower neo-natal, early and infant mortality rates …

treated. Results show that children diagnosed with ADHD in pharmacological treatment have fewer hospital contacts if treated …

We estimate the impact of nurse unions on health care quality using patient discharge data and the universe of hospital … hospital-specific trends, we find that unionized hospitals also outperform hospitals without any union election in the same 12 …

of the hospital from a fringe institution to one essential to the practice of medicine. Despite the central role of …. In this paper, we explore how access to the hospital and modern medicine affects mortality. We do so by leveraging a … combination of novel data and a unique quasi-experiment: a large-scale hospital modernization program introduced by The Duke …