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Do Kidney Exchanges Improve Patient Outcomes?

Teltser, Keith - 2020

In this paper, I estimate the number of additional transplants generated by kidney exchanges. To do this, I analyze substitution patterns between exchange transplants and other transplant outcomes. Exploiting variation in patients exposure to exchange activity across time and place, I find that...

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Nurse Unions and Patient Outcomes

Dube, Arindrajit - 2014

We estimate the impact of nurse unions on health care quality using patient discharge data and the universe of hospital … hospital-specific trends, we find that unionized hospitals also outperform hospitals without any union election in the same 12 …

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Medical Technology : Electromedicine Driving Healthcare

Heng, Stefan - 2015

Innovative products form the foundation for the international success of electromedical technology in Germany. This is shown both in the strong sales achieved by the German medical technology segment compared with other industrial countries and the export share of more than 70%, which even...

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Impact of Hospital Delivery on Child Mortality : An Analysis of Adolescent Mothers in Bangladesh

Pal, Sarmistha - 2015

The present paper provides new evidence that hospital delivery can significantly lower child mortality risks … 2005 (that enhanced emergency obstetric care in women friendly environment) to identify the causal effect of hospital … welfare clinic boosts hospital delivery likelihood, which in turn tends to lower neo-natal, early and infant mortality rates …

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A Two-Stage Estimation of Hospital Quality Using Mortality Outcome Measures : An Application Using Hospital Administrative Data

Chua, Chew Lian - 2011

supposition that there exists an abstract quality index which drives all observed mortality outcomes in each hospital. This … hospital administrative data from the state of Victoria, Australia. Using the quality estimates, we show that teaching … related to hospital size …

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The effects of unemployment on health, hospitalizations, and mortality - evidence from administrative data

Vodopivec, Matija; Laporšek, Suzana; Stare, Janez; … - 2021

comparison to employed persons with permanent contracts, persons experiencing unemployment face increased hazard of all three …

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Dark passage: mental health consequences of parental death

Böckerman, Petri; Haapanen, Mika; Jepsen, Christopher - 2021

This paper studies the causal effect of parental death on children's mental health. Combining several nationwide register-based data for Finnish citizens born between 1971 and 1986, we use an event study methodology to analyze hospitalization for mental health-related reasons by the age of 30....

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When externalities collide: influenza and pollution

Zivin, Joshua S. Graff; Neidell, Matthew; Sanders, … - 2021

Influenza and air pollution each pose significant public health risks with large global economic consequences. The common pathways through which each harms health presents an interesting case of compounding risk via interacting externalities. Using instrumental variables based on changing wind...

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Healthcare Costs, Choice of Providers and Patient Satisfaction : Survey Evidence from India

Arora, Prateek; Singh, Nirvikar; Visaria, Abhijit - 2021

In this paper, we seek to examine the factors that influence the choice of healthcare providers in the rural areas of a highly developed state of India, Punjab. In particular, we examined the choice between government and private providers, as well as between medical professionals and informal...

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Theoretical Analysis of Hospitals’ Response to a Per Diem Prospective Payment System

Shapiro, Dmitry - 2021

Japan has one of the longest average length of stay in hospital (ALOS) among developed countries. To curb the high ALOS …

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