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Doing "more" in healthcare can be a major threat to the delivery of high-quality health care. This study used coarsened exact matching to test the hypothesis of supplier-induced demand (SID) by comparing health care utilization and expenditures between patients affiliated with healthcare...
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The paper investigates the effects of nursing overtime on nosocomial infections and medical accidents in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The literature lacks clear evidence on this issue and we conjecture that this may be due to empirical and methodological factors. We thus focus on a...
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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 …
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While a large literature studies the impact of exposure to early-life investment policies, this paper examines the impact of changes within a program, the Danish nurse home visiting program, on child and maternal health. We exploit variation induced by a nurse strike, which resulted in families...
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The growing healthcare needs of baby boomers require significant increases in the number or productivity of healthcare workers. This paper explores how immigrants may fill these gaps in nursing homes. First, we show that immigrant inflows are associated with reduced wages of lower skilled nurses...
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physicians in Ontario, Canada. Using a panel of administrative data that covers one year before and two years after the FHO model … was introduced in 2007, we find that physicians in the FHO model provide about 6 percent fewer services and visits per day … immunizations, pap smears, and mammograms compared to physicians in the FHG model. These results are largely consistent with the …
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introduced an optional mixed compensation (MC) scheme for specialist physicians working in hospital. This scheme combines a fixed …We provide an analysis of the effect of physician payment methods on their hospital patients' length of stay and risk … patients' health by more than a critical level, they will stay more days in hospital over the period. At the empirical level …
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Roughly a quarter of physicians in the United States are either international medical graduates (IMGs) or foreign …-born physicians (FBPs). We propose a theoretical model where patient preferences that disfavor IMGs and FBPs may result in those … physicians offering better access to their services compared with non-IMGs/FBPs in equilibrium. We use data from two field …
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expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in … the supply of physicians reduce infant mortality and mortality from common childhood diseases. Using a semiparametric …
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possibility of differential productivity across occupations. The model combines moral hazard and matching of physicians and … occupations with pre-matching investments. In equilibrium assortative matching takes place; more able physicians join occupations …
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