the workforce. This paper provides new insights into how survey data can be combined with administrative records to … examine the ways in which funding affects workforce decisions. We show that NSF supports more graduate students per dollar …

Regulatory entry barriers to hospital service markets, namely Certificate of Need (CON) regulations, are enforced in … impacts of CON on hospital volumes, demand responses to actual hospital entry into local hospital markets are not well … hospital entry by studying the cardiac revascularization markets in Pennsylvania, a state in which dynamic market entry …

design to examine effects of the expansion on health insurance coverage, hospital use, and patient health. We then link these … changes to effects on hospital finances. We show that a substantial share of the federally-funded Medicaid expansion … hospital revenue and profitability, with larger gains for government hospitals. On the benefits side, we do not detect …

Medicaid expansion on a hospital's incentive to invest in technology. Using American Hospital Association data, we find that on …

We examine whether obtaining prescription drug insurance through the Medicare Part D program affected hospital … Medicare Part D was associated with an 8% decrease in the number of hospital admissions, a 7% decrease in Medicare expenditures …

whether patients discharged to hospital-based SNFs have better outcomes. In unadjusted comparisons, hospital-based SNF … solved the problem of differential selection into hospital-based and freestanding SNFs by using differential distance from … home to the nearest hospital with a SNF relative to the distance from home to the nearest hospital without a SNF as an …

We examine some economic impacts of hospital admissions using an event study approach in two datasets: survey data from … the Health and Retirement Study, and hospital admissions data linked to consumer credit reports. We report estimates of … the impact of hospital admissions on out-of-pocket medical spending, unpaid medical bills, bankruptcy, earnings, income …