Recent substantive reforms to the English National Health Service expanded patient choice and encouraged hospitals to compete within a market with fixed prices. This study investigates whether these reforms led to improvements in hospital quality. We use a difference-in-difference-style estimator to test whether hospital quality (measured using mortality from acute myocardial infarction) improv...

Title of Dissertation: Essays on Inequality and Reforms: Evidence from India Utsav Kumar, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007 Directed By: Assistant Professor Nuno Limão, Department of Economics Economic reforms along with its promise of increasing income and growth rates have also raised concerns about its distributional implications. These concerns are at the heart of the arguments of those who oppose...

Based on the analysis of previously published works, it was determined that there had been a dearth research into topic at hand; hence, this study set out to contribute existing body knowledge by filling void. Controller Budget and Auditor General Offices state County Governments continue face governance, integrity, accountability, transparency difficulties in administration public resources de...

Most people accept that structural and labour market reforms are needed in Europe. However few have been undertaken. The usual conjecture is that reforms are costly in economic performance and costly to finance. Blanchard and Giavazzi (2003) and Spector (2004) develop a general equilibrium model with imperfect competition to show the impact of labour or product market deregulation. We extend th...

INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................... 258 I. THE EVOLUTION OF PRODUCTS LIABILITY LAW ...................... 262 A. Early American Law ....................................................... 263 B. Modern American Law ................................................... 265 C. The Liability “Crisis” ...................................

In a series of reforms started in 1998 and formalized with the 2000 introduction of the Blueprint for Student Success, the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) implemented a wideranging series of reforms designed to boost the literacy skills of students. This paper provides an overview of the reforms, assesses the contributions made by the papers in this special issue of JESPAR, and highli...

Public hospitals play an important role in the delivery of essential healthcare in Australia as in many countries. The Australian Government has in the recent years implemented national healthcare reform to improve the performance of and access to public hospital services. This reform extends to all public hospitals including remote hospitals. However, there is limited information on how reform...

OBJECTIVES Evidence on whether removing fees benefits the poorest is patchy and weak. The aim of this paper is to measure the impact of user fee reforms on the probability of giving birth in an institution or undergoing a caesarean section (CS) in Ghana, Burkina Faso, Zambia, Cameroon and Nigeria for the poorest strata of the population. SETTING Women's experience of user fees in 5 African co...

The 15 years of socio-economic reforms have shown that all the changes happening in our society, have different and contradictory impact on men and women. One cannot assert for sure that market reforms certainly lead to men being among the winners, while women bearing the social costs of reforms. Below we will try to clarify this statement by analyzing Russian gender situation in different sphe...