One of the most fascinating puzzles of comparative politics is why the extent of the modern state's reach into core areas of public policy varies so wildly. This paper suggests a preliminary explanation of the size of the nonprofit provision in the areas of social services, health care, and...

Motivated by bed allocation patterns of U.S. nursing homes, we formulate a queueing network model to study nonprofit and for-profit nursing homes' bed allocation decisions and the resulting access to care for the public. Nursing homes have a fixed number of beds that can be allocated among three...