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Services in the Domestic Economy and in World Transactions
Kravis, Irving B. - 1983
A new interest in the role of services in world transactions has been generated by the current efforts of the U. S …. Government to reduce barriers to international trade in services.The paper distinguishes four different classifications of … economic activities between services and corrmodities. Service industries -- those producing non-storable outputs -- have been …
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Service Offshoring and Productivity : Evidence from the United States
Amiti, Mary - 2006
have made it possible to trade in some business and computing services that were previously considered non-tradable. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466745
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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
This study examines the link between credit supply and hospital health outcomes. Using detailed data on hospitals and the banks that they borrow from, we use bank stress tests as exogenous shocks to credit access for hospitals that have lending relationships with tested banks. We find that...
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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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A Note on the Level of Customer Support by State Governments : A Mystery-Shopping Approach
Dube, Oeindrila; Mullainathan, Sendhil; Pope, Devin G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Many government services are provided at the state level such as unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and SNAP. Given the … lack of competition, a natural worry is that customer support provided by states for these services is less than adequate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599345
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Strengthening State Capacity : Postal Reform and Innovation during the Gilded Age
Aneja, Abhay; Xu, Guo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We use newly digitized records from the U.S. Post Office to study how strengthening state capacity affects public service delivery and innovation in over 2,800 cities between 1875-1905. Exploiting the gradual expansion of a major civil service reform, cities with a reformed postal office...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172151
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Public School Funding, School Quality, and Adult Crime
Baron, E. Jason; Hyman, Joshua; Vasquez, Brittany N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper asks whether improving the quality of public schools can be an effective long-run crime-prevention strategy in the U.S. Specifically, we examine the effect of school quality improvements early in children's lives on the likelihood that they are arrested as adults. We exploit...
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