Government Monitoring of Health Care Quality: Evidence from the Nursing Home Sector

In contracting out, monitoring is an important policy tool to extract information on firm quality and incentivize quality provision. This paper examines a central quality inspection of nursing homes, a sector with significant welfare implications but widespread public concerns about the quality of

在外包（contracting out）场景中，质量监管是获取企业服务质量相关信息、激励服务质量供给的重要政策工具。本文针对养老院行业的集中式质量监管（central quality inspection）展开研究——该行业虽具有显著的福利效应，却长期面临公众对其服务质量的广泛担忧。