Do Minimum Quality Standards Improve Quality? A Case Study of the Nursing Home Industry
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Keywords
Minimum Quality Standards; Nurse Staffing; Quality of Patient Care; Endogeneity; Dynamics;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L0 - Industrial Organization - - General
- I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HEA-2010-02-20 (Health Economics)
- NEP-LAB-2010-02-20 (Labour Economics)
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