In their study of physician and hospital utilization in 1969, Davis and Reynolds found that Medicare had failed to eliminate major racial and income-related inequities in the use of medical services by the elderly. Our analysis-which takes advantage of more recent data, an improved model...

This paper considers how the decision to enter advanced practice nursing (e.g., the occupations of nurse practitioner, certified nurse-midwife, nurse anesthetist, and clinical nurse specialist) is affected by State laws on the scope of practice of APNs. ...

The study analyzes the determinants of reading achievement for 500 fourthgraders in the Wilmington, Delaware, school district. The data are an improvement over those used by past researchers because of the concurrent availability of student IQ, pretest and posttest reading scores, student...

Using four large micro data sets, this paper examines the returns to investments in education by registered nurses during the period 1970-84. Wage models are estimated by a maximum likelihood technique that accounts for selection bias. No wage difference existed between associate and diploma...