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 …

Although it has long been conjectured that having physicians in leadership positions is valuable for hospital … three specialties: Cancer, Digestive Disorders, and Heart and Heart Surgery. The personal histories of the 300 chief …-physician managers. The paper finds a strong positive association between the ranked quality of a hospital and whether the CEO is a …

role in explaining the effect of ownership status on hospital quality. When age, sex, diagnoses and co-morbidities are held …

within 15 days between extreme regions. They may reflect spatial differences in patient characteristics, treatments, hospital …

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 …

hospital admissions for elective care – phimosis surgery and epilepsy-related procedures such as video …. This may be a challenge in developing countries because of limited hospital capacity. In this study, we examine the …