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We study the quality choices of institutional health-care providers, such as hospitals, assuming that the utility function of the key organizational decision-maker includes both quality of care and financial surplus. An increase in the decision-maker’s rate of surplus retention leads to a...

We study the quality choices of institutional health-care providers, such as hospitals, assuming that the utility function of the key organizational decision maker includes both quality of care and financial surplus. We are primarily concerned with how changes in outside claims—particularly...

Data on 2,355 married women from the 2006 China Health and Nutrition Survey are used to study how female employment affects fertility in China. China has deep concerns with both population size and female employment, so the relationship between the two should be better understood. Causality...