patient perspective, hospital quality therefore embodies amenities as well as clinical quality. We also find that a one …Amenities such as good food, attentive staff, and pleasant surroundings may play an important role in hospital demand …-standard-deviation increase in amenities raises a hospital's demand by 38.4% on average, whereas demand is substantially less responsive to …

the hospital industry, where the courts have denied seven of eight merger challenges since 1994, due largely to … previously employed methods overstate hospital demand elasticities by a factor of 2.4 to 3.4 and define larger markets than would … environment for hospital mergers …

The hospital industry is one of the most important industries in the U.S., and industry structure can have profound … Hospital Survey and Construction Act of 1946, known as the Hill-Burton program, on hospital capacity, organization of the … hospital industry, and utilization. We find that the program generated substantial increases in capacity and these changes were …

product of labor, with larger markdowns at more desirable programs. Therefore, a limited number of positions at high quality … market. I find that financial incentives increase the quality, but not the number of rural residents. Quantity regulations … increase the number of rural trainees, but the impact on resident quality depends on the design of the intervention …

productivity impacts of movements from traditional adversarial management, which is the norm in this industry, to total quality …

We study the relation between product quality and worker quality using an economic model that, under certain conditions …, provides a direct link between product price, product quality and work force quality. Our measures of product quality are the …. Our worker quality measures are the firm's average person effect and personal characteristics effect from individual wage …

the market for quality. However, inadequate risk adjustment of report-card measures often biases comparisons across … patients who go to higher-rated SNFs experience lower mortality, fewer days in the nursing home, and fewer hospital …

restaurants, hotels, and nonessential retail. Private, self-regulating behavior explains more than three-quarters of the decline …