staffing in Japanese nursing homes, using geographic variation in robot subsidies as an instrumental variable. We find that …

of monopsony. We use an exogenous change in wages at Veterans Affairs hospitals as a natural experiment to investigate … responded to the VA wage change by changing their own wages …

skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) lessen competition among SNFs by foreclosing rival SNFs from access to the most lucrative … patient's expected profitability to a SNF increases the probability that a hospital self-refers that patient (i.e., to a co …-owned SNF) by 2.5 percent. We find no evidence that increased self-referrals improve patient outcomes or change post …

mandated minimum levels of patients per nurse in the hospital setting. When the law was passed, some hospitals already had … acceptable staffing levels, while others had nurse staffing ratios that did not meet mandated standards. Thus changes in hospital …

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

There is concern that licensure requirements impede mobility of licensed professionals to areas of high demand. Nursing …

resource utilization (measured by risk-adjusted length of hospital stay) and quality (measured by risk-adjusted mortality rates ….e., higher risk-adjusted length of hospital stay) for both minor and major teaching hospitals and decreased quality (i.e., higher … monotonically increasing in a hospital's reliance on residents for the provision of care. In fact, the most-intensive teaching …