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Job Market Paper: Does Hospital Leadership Matter? Evidence from Pay-for-Performance

Managers are often seen as drivers of firm decisions, strategies, and performance. Further, manager characteristics have been linked to employee wages, decisions of mergers and acquisitions, and financial performance. Health care policies in the US …

Labor Markets and Technological Change: Evidence from Electronic Health Records

Technology adoption in health care has the potential to improve patient outcomes, and in some cases, decrease costs. However, new technologies can also be burdensome for physicians. I add to our understanding of how new technology can affect its …

Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansions and maternal morbidity

In this paper, we test whether the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansions are associated with maternal morbidity. The ACA expansions may have affected maternal morbidity by increasing pre-conception access to health care, and by improving the …