hospital financial data from California (1999-2006). My results indicate that uninsured patients have an economically … - the in-hospital mortality rate of insured heart attack patients. I employ panel data models using patient discharge and … spillover effects is increased hospital uncompensated care costs. Although data limitations constrain my capacity to check how …

Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 …

lowered immigrant participation, and others have argued that this is true only in California. This paper analyzes the role of …

administrative data from California together with a regression kink (RK) design to estimate the causal impacts of benefits in the …

Many U.S. cities have recently increased their minimum wages, especially in California. We report results from carrying … employment effects, in our analysis of California cities we find a hint of negative employment effects, but the estimates are …. In our panel data analyses of all California or national local minimum wages, there is evidence pointing to declines in …

Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of … likely to die in the hospital than the whites. We analyze the determinants of in-hospital mortality at Touro using Oaxaca … based on the selective hospital admission of slaves. -- Slavery ; hospital ; Oaxaca-type decomposition ; New Orleans ; Touro …

Although it has long been conjectured that having physicians in leadership positions is valuable for hospital …-physician managers. The paper finds a strong positive association between the ranked quality of a hospital and whether the CEO is a …