Data and Code for: Hurricane Maria and La Crisis Boricua on Healthcare Supply in Puerto Rico

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Jose Fernandez, University of Louisville

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AEA_PP_do_file.do	text/x-stata-syntax	9.8 KB	04/12/2021 07:09:AM
Readme.txt	text/plain	673 bytes	04/12/2021 07:09:AM
aamc_data.xlsx	application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet	28.8 KB	04/12/2021 07:09:AM
oes_2000_2019_modified.dta	application/x-stata	387 MB	04/12/2021 07:09:AM
pr_county_estab.dta	application/x-stata	73.2 MB	04/12/2021 07:09:AM

Project Citation:

Fernandez, Jose. Data and Code for: Hurricane Maria and La Crisis Boricua on Healthcare Supply in Puerto Rico. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2021. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2021-05-06. https://doi.org/10.3886/E130402V1

Project Description

Summary: Due to the financial crisis facing Puerto Rico, many medical professionals on the island have left. Former Governor Rossello passed Act 14 in April of 2017 hoping to stave off the exodus of physicians. Act 14 reduces the income tax charge on medical services from 30 percent to 4 percent for 15 years. During the same year Puerto Rico experience a devastating category 4 hurricane, which left the island without power or water for several months. We will use a difference in difference estimation to estimate the effects of this change in the marginal tax rate to both keep physicians on the island as well as attract new physicians to the island from the mainland US. We use data from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, the May Occupational Employment Statistics counts, and the AAMC Report on Residents. We find the number of healthcare providers decreased by 6.5 percent. The number of family physicians and pediatricians fell by 17.5 percent and 62 percent respectively. However, the number of registered nurses increased by 2.7 percent. Although the levels of healthcare providers decreases, the rate of healthcare provides per capita actually increased during this time period since the population decreases more rapidly than the fall in the level of healthcare providers.

The zip file includes a STATA do file, readme file, and the following data files.
AAMC Report of Resident xls file contains counts of residents by state and year
May Occupational Employment Statistics Counts 2000-2019
Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages establishment counts of physician offices by county by quarter from 2000 to 2019

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Hurricane ; tax policy; healthcare workers

JEL Classification:
      H75 State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
      I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
      J21 Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure

Geographic Coverage: Puerto Rico, United States of America

Time Period(s): 2000 – 2019

Data Type(s): census/enumeration data

Methodology

Unit(s) of Observation: States, counties

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V1 [2021-05-06]

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