hospital-specific trends, we find that unionized hospitals also outperform hospitals without any union election in the same 12 …We estimate the impact of nurse unions on health care quality using patient discharge data and the universe of hospital … unionizations in California between 1996 and 2005. We find that hospitals with a successful union election outperform hospitals with …

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 …

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

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable …

administrative data on secondary Italian students to the management scores of their school principals in 2011 and 2015 based on the … World Management Survey methodology. The frequent turnover of school principals over this period allows us to causally … interpret school-fixed-effect estimates. We find that management quality positively and substantially impacts standardized math …

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 …

between patients affiliated with healthcare professionals and their counterpart patients not affiliated with healthcare … professionals. Using the China Labor-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS) in 2014, we identified 806 patients affiliated with healthcare … professionals and 22,788 patients not affiliated with healthcare professionals. The matched outpatient proportion of patients not …

of the hospital from a fringe institution to one essential to the practice of medicine. Despite the central role of … medicine in contemporary society, little is known about how hospitals and modern medicine contributed to this health transition …. In this paper, we explore how access to the hospital and modern medicine affects mortality. We do so by leveraging a …