. We find that distances between the rural uninsured and safety net providers such as hospital emergency rooms, public …

use detailed longitudinal monthly data on nursing units in the Veterans Administration hospital system to identify how the … human capital (general, hospital-specific and unit or team-specific) of the nursing team on the unit affects patients …

market shares at a point in time and are more likely to expand over time. For example, a 10 percent increase in hospital …

discharge have poorer outcomes, as well as higher downstream spending once conditioning on initial hospital spending …

We develop a simple framework to measure the role of hospital allocation in racial disparities in health care and use … receives care, hospital care is highly effective, and hospital quality has been validated. We report four facts. (1) Black … patients receive care at lower-performing hospitals than white patients, even when they live in the same hospital market or ZIP …

Mergers that affiliate a hospital with a Catholic owner, network, or system reduce the set of possible reproductive …