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 …

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 …

This paper studies the short-term impact of public smoking bans on hospitalizations in Germany. It exploits the … in preventing 1.9 hospital admissions (-2.1%) due to cardiovascular diseases per day, per 1 million population. We also …

introduction of new Low Emission Zones across cities in Germany. We use detailed hospitalization data combined with geo …

hospitalizations during the years 2007-2011 in Germany in order to evaluate the short-term impact of this policy on alcohol …

immigrants. The UK and Germany have experienced significant increases in immigration in recent years and this study uses … individuals on arrival and over time. While immigrants to Germany, but not the UK, are more likely to self-report poor health than … the native-born population, the samples of immigrants use hospital and GP services at broadly the same rate as the native …

This paper exploits rich SOEP microdata to analyze state-level variation in health care utilization in Germany. Unlike …

safety. Works councils may help mitigate these failures. Using establishment data from Germany, our empirical analysis …