PLEASE NOTE LOCATION
HEALTH LAW & POLICY WORKSHOP
presents
Professor Jill Horwitz
University of Michigan Law School
What do Nonprofits Maximize? Nonprofit Hospital Service Provision and Market Ownership Mix
Thursday, March 13, 2008
12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
Classroom A (FLA) – Flavelle House
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
78 Queen's Park
Conflicting theories of the nonprofit firm have existed for decades yet empirical research has not resolved these debates, partly because the theories are not easily testable but also because empirical research generally considers organizations in isolation rather than in markets. Here we examine three hospital ownership types nonprofit, for-profit, and government and their spillover effects. We look at the effect of for-profit market share in two ways, on the provision of medical services and on operating margins at the three types of hospitals. We find that nonprofit hospitals’ medical service provision systematically varies by market mix. We find no significant effect of market mix on the operating margins of nonprofit hospitals. These results fit best with theories in which hospitals maximize their own output.
Jill Horwitz is an Assistant Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School and Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She holds an honors B.A. from Northwestern University, and an M.P.P., J.D. (magna cum laude), and Ph.D. from Harvard University. She clerked for Judge Stahl (U.S. Court of Appeals, 1st Circuit). Horwitz has been a fellow at Harvard’s Centers for Nonprofit Organizations (2000-2002) and Ethics and the Professions (2000-2001), and the NBER (2002-2003). Horwitz has been a public affairs director for Planned Parenthood and taught history at Phillips Academy. She is a member of the Massachusetts bar and the National Academy of Social Insurance. She recently visited at the University of Victoria (Law and Public Administration).
A light lunch will be served.
Jointly sponsored by the Faculty of Law and the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
For workshop information, please go to our web site at http://www.law.utoronto.ca/healthlaw/index.htm or contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.
