uneven growth in Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments across states and hospitals to answer these … significant declines in infant and post-heart attack mortality. A range of evidence suggests that these improvements were due to … better hospital care. Overall, our analysis implies that public subsidies can be an effective mechanism for improving medical …

endogenous health-based spatial sorting of involved agents and data limitations on out-of-hospital mortality. Using policy … distance from a hospital. The results further show that spatial sorting and sample selection from out-of-hospital mortality are …The article analyzes to which extent residential proximity from an emergency hospital affects the probability of …

health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … in poverty on infant survival. We identify a significant within-state relationship which persists conditional upon state … income, indicating the size of survival gains from redistribution in favour of households below the poverty line. The poverty …

geographic inequality in mortality for midlife Americans increased by about 70 percent from 1992 to 2016. This was not simply … the largest health gains during the last several decades. Nor was higher dispersion in mortality caused entirely by the …, state-level mortality has become increasingly correlated with state-level income; in 1992 income explained only 3 percent of …