, combining rich population-wide register data with random assignment of patients to general practitioners (GPs). We show that … there is substantial variation in the quality of physicians, as measured by patients' post-assignment mortality, in the … driven by unobserved differences across doctors. Finally, we show that patients are unable to identify who the high …

This paper estimates a theory-guided gravity equation of regional patient flows. In our model, a patient’s choice to … of both patients and physicians. Introducing this concept in a spatial economics model, we derive an augmented gravity …

primary care doctor consultations. We use novel data from Sweden and an effectively random assignment of patients to nurses …, who differ in their propensity to direct patients to online versus in-person consultations. Our findings reveal that … online’s advantages for different patients and how to improve hybrid organizations’ cost effectiveness. …

urban-rural gap in public infrastructure. Leftwing governments relocate hospital beds from rural regions. We propose that … leftwing governments do so to gratify their more urban constituencies. In turn, spatial inequalities in hospital infrastructure …

the German birth statistics 1996 to 2010 and German hospital data from 2006 to 2011, we estimate that since the …

health care services among hospitals patients. These effects were stronger for adoptions occurring when also the national …

, we introduce a Stackelberg game where the hospital is the leader and the care institution is the follower. The reform … and patients' health, and the optimal discharge date before the reform. Testing the results with data, we find a large …

) patients choose a hospital based in part on waiting times; and (iii) hospitals incur waiting time penalties. We show that …We develop a dynamic model of hospital competition where (i) waiting times increase if demand exceeds supply; (ii … to higher waiting times. These results are robust to different game-theoretic solution concepts, designs of the hospital …