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 …

both lower levels of hospital infrastructure and serious health shocks driven by air pollution. These shocks are transitory … based on wind speed, and a plausibly exogenous measure of hospital capacity constraints, we show that such transitory health …

available quality measures, and (2) apply this method to estimating the quality of hospital care for elderly patients with heart …

applied to health care: hospital mergers, monopsony, and foreclosure. In each of these sections we review the relevant …

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

We develop a simple framework to measure the role of hospital allocation in racial disparities in health care and use … receives care, hospital care is highly effective, and hospital quality has been validated. We report four facts. (1) Black … patients receive care at lower-performing hospitals than white patients, even when they live in the same hospital market or ZIP …

The United States has recently seen a large increase in hospital mergers and acquisitions, and Catholic hospital … mergers between Catholic and non-Catholic systems since 1997. Mergers that affiliate a hospital with a Catholic owner, network … to Catholic (and vice versa) on reproductive health procedures that are likely to be affected. Using hospital …