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Antitrust and Competition in Health Care Markets

Gaynor, Martin - 1999

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

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Capacity Constraints and the Provision of Public Services : The Case of Workers in Public Health Clinics

Harris, Matthew C. - 2019

Unlike in the production of most goods, changes in capacity for labor-intensive services only affect outcomes of interest insofar as service providers change the way they allocate their time in response to those capacity changes. In this paper, we examine how public sector service providers...

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Is There Monopsony in the Labor Market? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Staiger, Douglas - 1999

A variety of recent theoretical and empirical advances have renewed interest in monopsonistic models of the labor market. However, there is little direct empirical support for these models, even in labor markets that are textbook examples of monopsony. We use an exogenous change in wages at...

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Is Healthcare Employment Resilient and "Recession Proof"?

Dillender, Marcus; Friedson, Andrew; Thanh Cong Gian; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Conventional wisdom often holds that the healthcare sector fares better than other sectors during economic downturns. However, little research has examined the relationship between local economic conditions and healthcare employment. Understanding how the healthcare sector responds to economic...

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The Effects of State Scope of Practice Laws on the Labor Supply of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses

Markowitz, Sara - 2020

This paper studies the effects of changes in states' scope of practice laws (SOP) for advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) on individual labor supply decisions. Restrictive SOP impose costs and other barriers to practice that may affect these decisions. Using survey data on APRNs, we...

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How Does Provider Supply and Regulation Influence Health Care Market? Evidence from Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants

Stange, Kevin M. - 2013

Nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) now outnumber family practice doctors in the United States and are the principal providers of primary care to many communities. Recent growth of these professions has occurred amidst considerable cross-state variation in their regulation,...

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The Effect of an Increase in Autism Prevalence on the Demand for Auxiliary Healthcare Workers : Evidence from California

Dave, Dhaval M. - 2012

Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by impairments in social interaction, communication, and restricted or repetitive behaviors. This previously rare condition has dramatically increased in prevalence from 0.5 in 1000 children during the 1970s to 11.3 in 1000 children in 2008. Using...

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The Quality of Health Care Providers

McClellan, Mark - 1999

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

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Hospital Allocation and Racial Disparities in Health Care

Chandra, Amitabh - 2020

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 …

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Identifying Provider Prejudice in Healthcare

Chandra, Amitabh - 2010

We use simple economic insights to develop a framework for distinguishing between prejudice and statistical discrimination using observational data. We focus our inquiry on the enormous literature in healthcare where treatment disparities by race and gender are not explained by access,...

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