Human Capital and Organizational Performance: Evidence from the Healthcare Sector

Ann P. Bartel, Ciaran S. Phibbs, Nancy Beaulieu, Patricia Stone

NBER Working Paper No. 17474
Issued in September 2011

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the generous support of a grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, outstanding research assistance from Lakshmi Ananth, Bruno Giovannetti, Cherisse Harden, Cecilia Machado, Raymond Lim, Susan Schmitt, Andrea Shane and Anukriti Sharma and helpful comments from Amitabh Chandra, Joseph Doyle, Sherry Glied, Tal Gross, Maria Guadalupe, Samuel Kleiner, James Rebitzer, Jonah Rockoff, Douglas Staiger and Ty Wilde as well as seminar participants at the NBER Summer Institute, The American Society of Health Economists Annual Meetings, MIT, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and CUNY Graduate Center. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the position or policy of the Department of Veterans Affairs or the United States government. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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