We evaluate the effect of a pro-competition reform gradually introduced in France over the 2004-2008 period on hospital … quality measured with the mortality of heart-attack patients. Our analysis distinguishes between hospitals depending on their … and financial autonomy as well as their reimbursement systems and incentives for competition before the reform, but they …

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 …

used containing quarterly information on healthcare costs (care by general practitioner (GP), hospital care, pharmaceutical … acupuncture (25), homeopathy (28) and anthroposophic medicine (26). Patients whose GP has additional CAM training have 0 to 30 … hospital stays and fewer prescription drugs. Since the differences are obtained while controlling for confounders including …

patients. Thus, targeting provider incentives through alternative payment models, such as episode-based reimbursement, is more …

availability. In the patient preferences field experiment, we find that patients strongly prefer doctors educated in the United …

study document favourable small sample properties. In an application to hospital data on patient readmission rates under the … 2010 Affordable Care Act, we find that hospital fixed effects are strongly correlated across different treatment categories …

patients admitted to hospitals for a heart attack. These disparities are large, with an 80% difference in the propensity to die … within 15 days between extreme regions. They may reflect spatial differences in patient characteristics, treatments, hospital … have any noticeable effect. Moreover, the higher the local concentration of patients in a few large hospitals rather than …

from a mother's residence to the closest hospital. We find that giving birth in a hospital leads to substantial reductions …

the hospital level. To identify a causal effect, I develop a unique identification strategy where I exploit hospitals …' exposure to snowfall. A particularity of the reform led to exogenous treatment price shocks at hospital level in response to … weather-induced excess of patients. The results show that higher prices induce hospitals to hire more physicians and nurses …