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changes in social stigma. Using data on all hospital visits in New Jersey from 2008-2019, we investigate two inflection points …
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same hospital to control for practice setting. Event studies show that internists who join more-intensive groups …
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Does quality of care systematically differ among government-owned, private not-for-profit, and for-profit hospitals? A large empirical literature provides conflicting evidence. Through quantitative review of 46 studies since 1990, we find that several study features that can explain divergent...
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Training to become a physician involves long work hours that can be physically demanding, particularly for surgeons. Are birth outcomes of physician mothers affected as a result? Using Texas birth data from 2007-2014, we compared birth outcomes between physicians and another highly educated...
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Do environmental conditions pose greater health risks to individuals living in urban or rural areas? The answer is theoretically ambiguous: while urban areas have traditionally been associated with heightened exposure to environmental pollutants, the economies of scale and density inherent to...
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pattern of the United States. In this paper we compare the US with Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and also with Canada …, which is closer to European than the US is in its labor market and fiscal institutions. Europe's (and to some extent Canada …
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, Canada, and France. We argue that the same forces that led to falling real wages for less-skilled workers in the U ….S. affected similar workers in Canada and France. Consistent with the view that labor market institutions are more rigid in France … somewhat less in Canada, and did not fall at all in France. Contrary to expectations, however, we find little evidence that …
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Over 12 million persons migrated to Canada or the United States between 1959 and 1981. Beginning in the mid?1960s, the … Canada stressing skills. This paper shows that the point system used by Canada generated, on average, a more skilled …
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employment from the sixties to the mid-eighties for the United States and Canada. Both value-based and pricebased measures of … domestic market. The import effect on wage rates is also negative for the United States but not for Canada. The import wage … for the U.S. and ambiguous for Canada. For Canada, we also estimate world price effects. Increases in the world import …
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the bias resulting from regulation. We measure the bias for the manufacturing sectors of three countries, the U.S., Canada …
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