Recently, patients, insurers, and regulators have increasingly focused on hospital quality (the inverse of patient mortality) in the U.S. Using California hospital data from 2006 through 2020, we find evidence that the effects of compensation and competition on hospital quality differ by...

This study examines whether hospitals without physician participation on their boards of directors deliver lower quality of care. Using data from California nonprofit hospitals from 2004 to 2008, we document that the absence of physicians on the board is associated with a decrease of 3-5...