In this paper we take a historical perspective to examine the effects of managed care and hospital competition on hospital cost and revenue growth during managed care’s boom period (1990-1994), mature period (1995-1999), and backlash period (2000-2003). We find that while higher managed care...

type="main" xml:lang="en" <p>In light of the current economic crisis, we estimate hazard models of divorce to determine how state and national unemployment rates affect the likelihood of a divorce or separation. With data in the United States over the 1978–2008 period from the 1979 NLSY, we find...</p>

This study estimates the effect of deployment location and length on the risk of developing PTSD, relative to what it would be from the normal military operations. We use a random sample of activity-duty enlisted personnel serving between 2001 and 2006. We identify PTSD cases from TRICARE...

In this paper we take a historical perspective to examine the effects of managed care and hospital competition on hospital cost and revenue growth during managed care's boom period (1990-1994), mature period (1995-1999), and backlash period (2000-2003). We find that while higher managed care...

This study examines the effect of health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and for-profit HMO share on the survival of safety net services in hospitals between 1990 and 2004. The primary data sources are the American Hospital Association Annual Surveys, the Medicare hospital cost reports, and the...

This study examines the effect of HMO and for-profit HMO share on the survival of safety net services and profitable services in hospitals. Using data from 1990-2003 and proportional hazard models, I find that hospitals in high HMO markets started out having lower hazard of shutting down...

This systematic review examines what factors explain the diversity of findings regarding hospital ownership and quality. We identified 31 observational studies written in English since 1990 that used multivariate analysis to examine quality of care at nonfederal general acute, short-stay US...