We estimate the causal effect of nurse turnover on mortality and the quality of nursing home care with a fixed effect … instrumental variable estimation that uses the unemployment rate as an instrument for nursing turnover. We find that ignoring … endogeneity leads to a systematic underestimation of the effect of nursing turnover on mortality and quality of care in a sample …

1987, we estimate the impact of increased licensure of social workers in skilled nursing facilities on quality. The key … provision requires all skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) with 121 or more beds to provide at least one full-time equivalent …

We estimate the causal effect of nurse turnover on mortality and the quality of nursing home care with a fixed effect … instrumental variable estimation that uses the unemployment rate as an instrument for nursing turnover. We find that ignoring … endogeneity leads to a systematic underestimation of the effect of nursing turnover on mortality and quality of care in a sample …

We estimate the causal effect of nurse turnover on mortality and the quality of nursing home care with a fixed effect … instrumental variable estimation that uses the unemployment rate as an instrument for nursing turnover. We find that ignoring … endogeneity leads to a systematic underestimation of the effect of nursing turnover on mortality and quality of care in a sample …