interest insofar as service providers change the way they allocate their time in response to those capacity changes. In this …-off between patients treated and time spent with each patient, which we treat as a proxy for a quality v. quantity decision. We … provide evidence that these small and generally insignificant effects on nurse time favor public sector employees prioritizing …

this, the UK government has pursued an active policy of hospital merger. These mergers are initiated by a regulator, acting … is met. We exploit the fact that between 1997 and 2006 in England around half the short term general hospitals were …

choice increased demand elasticity faced by hospitals with regard to clinical quality and waiting time for an important …

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

. We exploit variation over time in the distance from a patient's residential ZIP code to SNFs with different ratings to … patients who go to higher-rated SNFs experience lower mortality, fewer days in the nursing home, and fewer hospital …

parameters of a value-added hospital production function correcting for endogenous input choices in order to assess the private … change in hospital multi-factor productivity. Not-for-profits invested more heavily and differently in IT than for …