Avdic, Daniel; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2014
profession where stakes are high; advanced cancer surgery. For this purpose, we introduce a novel instru- ment that exploits the … volumes at Swedish public sec- tor hospitals. Using detailed register data on more than 100,000 episodes of advanced cancer … surgery, our results suggest positive eects of surgery volumes on survival. In addition, we provide evidence on the mechanisms …