human capital (general, hospital-specific and unit or team-specific) of the nursing team on the unit affects patients … use detailed longitudinal monthly data on nursing units in the Veterans Administration hospital system to identify how the … nursing staff are found to be cost-effective …

mandated minimum levels of patients per nurse in the hospital setting. When the law was passed, some hospitals already had …

We estimate the labor market return to an MBA, a JD, and master’s in engineering, nursing, education, psychology and …

.5 increases the probability of a dementia diagnosis by 1.68 percentage points. The effects are as large or larger when we adjust … dementia in 2013, yielding $214 billion in benefits. Further, PM2.5's effect on dementia persists below the current regulatory …

We elicit numerical expectations for late-onset dementia in the Health and Retirement Study. Our elicitation … imprecision using probability intervals. Nearly half of respondents hold imprecise dementia probabilities, while almost a third of … precise-probability respondents round their reports. We provide the first empirical evidence on dementia-risk perceptions …

Estimates are presented of the inverse elasticity of supply of nursing services to the individual hospital, a quantity …

There has been much debate among economists about whether nursing home quality is a public good across Medicaid and … private-pay patients within a common facility. However, there has been only limited empirical work addressing this issue …. Using a unique individual level panel of residents of nursing homes from seven states, we exploit both within-facility and …

The quality and cost of care in nursing homes depend critically on the number and types of nurses. Recent research … suggests that the nursing supply adjusts to macroeconomic conditions. However, prior work has failed to consider the effect of … direct-care staffing rates in nursing homes using California data. We exploit the wide variation in the unemployment rates …

effects for nursing home care are more drastic. We estimate a persistent 13% increase in nursing home mortality among the … providers and patients …