transport patients and have strong preferences for certain hospitals. Being admitted to a hospital with two standard deviations … hospital in a concentrated market increases spending but has no detectable effect on mortality …

air pollution shock mitigation in a high-stakes healthcare setting: hospital surgery scheduling. Using newly available … significant increase of hospital mortality among those who underwent surgeries on days with high particulate matter pollution … findings, we build and analyze a model of hospital surgery scheduling. For over a third of the high-risk surgeries, there …

exploiting exogenous shocks to care location choices stemming from base-hospital closures, we find suggestive evidence that …

Patients who receive more hospital treatment tend to have worse underlying health, confounding estimates of the returns … to such care. This paper compares the costs and benefits of extending the length of hospital stay following delivery … entitle newborns to a minimum number of hospital "days," counted as the number of midnights in care. A newborn delivered at 12 …

We explore the extent to which composition, duration dependence, and labor force non-participation can account for the … model that allows for duration dependence in the exit rate from unemployment and for transitions between employment (E … observed outward shift in the Beveridge curve between 2008 and 2013. Both negative duration dependence in the job-finding rate …