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Does The Market Reward Quality? : Evidence from India
Wagner, Zachary - 2019
studies in India that provide unique insight into this issue. First, we use a discrete choice experiment to show that patients …
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Quality and Accountability in Healthcare Delivery : Audit-Study Evidence from Primary Care in India
Das, Jishnu - 2015
We present the first direct evidence on the relative quality of public and private healthcare in a low-income setting, using a unique set of audit studies. We sent standardized (fake) patients to rural primary care providers in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, and recorded the quality of care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457263
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Does Management Matter in Schools
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457998
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The Relationship Dilemma : Organizational Culture and the Adoption of Credit Scoring Technology in Indian Banking
Mishra, Prachi - 2019
Credit scoring was introduced in India in 2007. We study the pace of its adoption by new private banks (NPBs) and state … banks suggests that neither bank size nor government ownership fully explains adoption patterns. Organizational culture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479645
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Government Guarantees and Bank Vulnerability during a Crisis : Evidence from an Emerging Market
Acharya, Viral V. - 2019
pre-crisis data, in order to study the impact of government guarantees on bank performance during a crisis. Using bank … private sector bank branches in districts with greater exposure to state-owned banks experienced deposit withdrawals and … shortening of deposit maturity. In contrast, nearby vulnerable state-owned bank branches grew their deposit base and increased …
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The Quality of Health Care Providers
McClellan, Mark - 1999
Obtaining better information on the quality of health care providers is one of the most pressing issues in health policy today. In this paper we (1) develop a new method for measuring quality of care that overcomes the key limitations of available quality measures, and (2) apply this method to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471457
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Comparing Hospital Quality at For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Hospitals
McClellan, Mark - 1999
Do not-for-profit hospitals provide better care than for-profit hospitals? We compare patient outcomes in for-profit and not-for-profit hospitals between 1984 and 1994 using a new method for estimating differences across hospitals that yields far more accurate estimates of hospital quality than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471460
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The Supply of Quality in Child Care Centers
Blau, David M. - 1999
We use data from a sample of day care centers to estimate the relationships between cost and the quality of the child care service provided, and between revenue and quality. We use a measure of child care quality derived from an instrument designed by developmental psychologists. This measure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471564
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Merchants of Death : The Effect of Credit Supply Shocks on Hospital Outcomes
Aghamolla, Cyrus; Karaca-Mandic, Pinar; Li, Xuelin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
the banks that they borrow from, we use bank stress tests as exogenous shocks to credit access for hospitals that have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510587
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The Impact of Healthcare IT on Clinical Quality, Productivity and Workers
Bronsoler, Ari; Doyle, Joseph J.; Van Reenen, John - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Adoption of health information and communication technologies ("HICT") has surged over the past two decades. We survey the medical and economic literature on HICT adoption and its impact on clinical outcomes, productivity and labor. We find that HICT improves clinical outcomes and lowers...
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