data on almost all hospital visits in New York from 1995 to 2011. We show that young privately insured individuals with … diagnoses that require more hospital visits in subsequent years are more likely to transition to public insurance. If we ignore …

technology. Specifically, we test whether the expansion of Medicaid eligibility for pregnant women during the 1980s and 1990s … insurance to a substantial number of pregnant women, prior literature also finds that some newly insured women would otherwise … Medicaid expansion on a hospital's incentive to invest in technology. Using American Hospital Association data, we find that on …

this, the UK government has pursued an active policy of hospital merger. These mergers are initiated by a regulator, acting …

In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … hospital increases the index of management quality by one third of a standard deviation and leads to a 10.7% reduction in heart …

, hospital services, and physician services. We will discuss the potential implications of the restructuring of the health care …

Single women in the U.S. dominated the female labor force from 1870 to 1920. Data on the home life and working … conditions of women in 1888 and 1907 enable the estimation of earnings functions. Work in the manufacturing sector for these … women was task oriented and payment was frequently by the piece. Earnings rose steeply with experience and peaked early …

The share of women in the top 1% of the UK’s income distribution has been growing over the last two decades (as in … being in the top 1%, fitted separately for men and women, in order to contrast between the sexes the role of changes in … characteristics and changes in returns to characteristics. We show that the rise of women in the top 1% is primarily accounted for by …

in compensating for the effects of children, especially for women who left education after completing high school, but …

differential between violent crime cases with female versus male victims. The inclusion of women also increased the likelihood of … jurors on the seated jury sharply increased conviction rates for violent crimes against women versus men …