available quality measures, and (2) apply this method to estimating the quality of hospital care for elderly patients with heart …

We develop a simple framework to measure the role of hospital allocation in racial disparities in health care and use … receives care, hospital care is highly effective, and hospital quality has been validated. We report four facts. (1) Black … patients receive care at lower-performing hospitals than white patients, even when they live in the same hospital market or ZIP …

discrimination using observational data. We focus our inquiry on the enormous literature in healthcare where treatment disparities by …

The United States has recently seen a large increase in hospital mergers and acquisitions, and Catholic hospital … systems have actively participated in this. As of 2016, 40% of the largest healthcare systems were faith-based, with 141 … mergers between Catholic and non-Catholic systems since 1997. Mergers that affiliate a hospital with a Catholic owner, network …

The conventional wisdom in health economics is that idiosyncratic features of the healthcare sector leave little scope … patients who have greater scope for hospital choice, suggesting a role for patient demand in allocation in the hospital sector …. Our findings suggest that the healthcare sector may have more in common with "traditional" sectors subject to standard …

result of idiosyncratic, institutional features of the healthcare sector which dull the role of market forces. Strikingly … also find evidence against the conventional wisdom that the healthcare sector does not operate like an industry subject to … market shares at a point in time and are more likely to expand over time. For example, a 10 percent increase in hospital …