Reif, Simon; Wichert, Sebastian; Wuppermann, Amelie - 2017
the quantity and quality of care that newborns receive. Based on the universe of hospital births in Germany from the years … 2005-2011, we investigate whether weight below reimbursement relevant thresholds triggers different quantity and quality of … care. We find that this is not the case, suggesting that hospitals' financial incentives with respect to birth weight do …