The Effect of COVID-19 on Human Capital in a Team Setting: Evidence from the VA

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Abstract: At the start of the COVID-19 Pandemic, the healthcare industry faced unprecedented turnover and staff shortages caused in part by the difficulty of navigating a global pandemic. Registered Nurses (RN) in the United Sates were especially hard hit (Liss 2021). Research (Mark et al. 2004; Sales et al. 2008; Needleman et al. 2011; Bartel et al. 2014; Kelly et al. 2022) has shown RN staffing and specific human capital (proxied by tenure) strongly affect patient mortality and length of stay. If COVID-19 caused significant numbers of experienced RNs to retire or scale back their work hours, it may have adversely affected patient outcomes. Using unit level data from the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) I investigate how COVID-19 affected the specific human capital of RNs within the VHA.

Subject	Nursing, Labor Market, Healthcare, Human Capital, COVID-19, Shortage
Genre	Text
Genre	Thesis

DOI	https://doi.org/10.25740/hk495tj1825
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/hk495tj1825

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Preferred citation: Garcia, N. (2023). The Effect of COVID-19 on Human Capital in a Team Setting: Evidence from the VA. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/hk495tj1825. https://doi.org/10.25740/hk495tj1825.

Stanford University, Department of Economics, Honors Theses

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