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 …

reporting in Kenyan health clinics. We recruit patients and health care providers from public and private health clinics to play … a series of modified Trust Games. In the game, patients can send money to providers, who are then able to reciprocate …. Patients can then file complaints if they are unhappy with the provider's level of reciprocity. We examine patient and provider …

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 …

concludes with an empirical application to consumer price inflation in Germany, France and Italy, and re-examines the extent to …