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Leaning in or Not Leaning Out? Opt-Out Choice Framing Attenuates Gender Differences in the Decision to Compete

He, Joyce - 2019

In most organizations, promotions often require self-nomination and competition among applicants. However, research on gender differences in preferences for competition suggests that this process might result in fewer women choosing to participate. We study whether changing promotion schemes...

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The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition : The Effect of Trade Liberalization

Guadalupe, Maria - 2014

This paper establishes a causal effect of competition from trade liberalization on various characteristics of organizational design. We exploit a unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies (1986-1999) of large U.S. firms and find that increasing competition leads firms to become flatter, i.e., (i)...

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How Spillovers from Appointment Reminders Improve Health Clinic Efficiency

Boone, Claire; Celhay, Pablo A.; Gertler, Paul J.; … - 2022

Missed clinic appointments present a significant burden to health care through disruption of care, inefficient use of staff time and wasted clinical resources. Short message service (SMS) appointment reminders show promise to improve clinics’ management through timely appointment cancellations...

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The Effect of Soft Budget Constraints on Access and Quality in Hospital Care

Shen, Yu-Chu - 2010

financial health affect different aspects of hospital operation. In our study, we analyze this issue focusing on hospital access … account both hospital's current and past financial health as well as their expected financial outlook (i.e., whether there is …

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What Do Nonprofits Maximize? Nonprofit Hospital Service Provision and Market Ownership Mix

Horwitz, Jill R. - 2010

Conflicting theories of the nonprofit firm have existed for several decades yet empirical research has not resolved these debates, partly because the theories are not easily testable but also because empirical research generally considers organizations in isolation rather than in markets. Here...

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Technology Diffusion and Productivity Growth in Health Care

Skinner, Jonathan - 2012

Inefficiency in the U.S. health care system has often been characterized as quot;flat of the curvequot; spending providing little or no incremental value. In this paper, we draw on macroeconomic models of diffusion and productivity to better explain the empirical patterns of outcome improvements...

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Rural Hospital Ownership : Medical Service Provision, Market Mix, and Spillover Effects

Horwitz, Jill R. - 2011

hospital ownership in the urban context. We examine differences in the provision of profitable and unprofitable medical … services in rural areas across nonprofit, for-profit, and government hospitals. We also consider the effect of hospital … ownership mix within rural hospital markets. We find that rural nonprofit hospitals are more likely than for-profit hospitals to …

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Does Decreased Access to Emergency Departments Affect Patient Outcomes? Analysis of Ami Population 1996-2005

Shen, Yu-Chu - 2011

infarction. Data sources include 100% Medicare Provider Analysis and Review, AHA hospital annual surveys, Medicare hospital cost …

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Estimating Heterogeneity in the Benefits of Medical Treatment Intensity

Evans, William N. - 2009

Federal and state laws passed in the late 1990 increased considerably postpartum stays for newborns. Using all births in California over the 1995-2001 period, 2SLS estimates suggest that for the average newborn impacted by the law, increased treatment intensity had modest and statistically...

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Health Care in a Multipayer System : the Effects of Health Care Service Demand Among Adults Under 65 on Utilization and Outcomes in Medicare

Glied, Sherry - 2014

Doctors and hospitals in the United States serve patients covered by many types of insurance. This overlap in the supply of health care services means that changes in the prices paid or the volume of services demanded by one group of patients may affect other patient groups. This paper examines...

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