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 …

Although it has long been conjectured that having physicians in leadership positions is valuable for hospital …-physician managers. The paper finds a strong positive association between the ranked quality of a hospital and whether the CEO is a …

exhaustive administrative dataset on patients admitted for heart attack. Our results show that innovative procedures play a key … role in explaining the effect of ownership status on hospital quality. When age, sex, diagnoses and co-morbidities are held …

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 …