Abstract:
:This study asks why hospitals provide direct financial support to nursing schools and faculty. This support is striking because nursing education is clearly general, clearly paid by the firm, and information asymmetries appear minimal. Using AHA and survey data, I find hospitals employing a greater share of their MSA's registered nurses are more likely to provide direct financial support to nursing schools and faculty, net of size and other institutional controls. Given the institutional context, I interpret this result as unusually specific evidence that technologically general skill training may be made de facto-specific by imperfect and costly mobility.
journal_name
J Health Econjournal_title
Journal of health economicsauthors
Benson Adoi
10.1016/j.jhealeco.2012.09.002subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2013-01-01 00:00:00pages
149-59issue
1eissn
0167-6296issn
1879-1646pii
S0167-6296(12)00118-Xjournal_volume
32pub_type
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