Deals with a study that explored whether lifetime earnings in various specialties influence the choice of field of physicians. Estimates of lifetime earnings differentials between specialties and general practice; Regression equations measuring the supply response to income. (Abstract copyright...

This study examines the impact of unions on worker compensation and total costs in hospitals, both in specific departments and in the hospital as a whole. An analysis of data for 367 hospitals for the years 1974 and 1977 shows that unions raised the mean compensation of hospital workers by 8.8%...

Nonprofit organizations may predominate when output quality is difficult to monitor. Hospital care has this characteristic. This study compared program cost and quality of care for Medicare patients hospitalized following onset of four common conditions by hospital ownership. Payments on behalf...

Analysis of determinants of two dimensions of the supply of physicians' services. Solutions proposed to address the rising cost of medical care; Development of the analytic framework; Specifications of wage and supply equations; Empirical results. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)

This paper reports the first test of how exogenous health shocks impact people's longevity expectations. The analysis exploits the panel structure of the Health and Retirement Study and tests whether smokers, former smokers and those who never smoked react differently to serious, smoking related...

This study investigates the effects of Medicaid and strategic behavior on (1) the probability of entering a nursing home, (2) amounts of formal and informal care provided elderly persons in the community, and (3) asset accumulation. We find that Medicaid subsidies increase the probabilyt of...

This study analyzes upstream intergenerational transfers from middle-aged children to their elderly parents. We formulate a model in which the middle-aged child transfers both money and time to an elderly parent based on an altruistic motive. We examine substitution between financial transfers...

Objective:This study assessed the effects of unified family and drug treatment courts (DTCs) on the resolution of cases involving foster care children and the resulting effects on school performance.Method:The first analytic step was to assess the impacts of presence of unified and DTCs in North...