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 …

Using newly digitized U.S. city-level data on hospitals, we explore how pandemics alter preferences for healthcare. We … find that cities with higher levels of mortality during the Great Influenza of 1918-1919 subsequently expanded hospital … increased their count of hospitals by 8-10 percent in the years after the pandemic. This effect persisted to 1960 and was driven …

of the hospital from a fringe institution to one essential to the practice of medicine. Despite the central role of … medicine in contemporary society, little is known about how hospitals and modern medicine contributed to this health transition …. In this paper, we explore how access to the hospital and modern medicine affects mortality. We do so by leveraging a …

, 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. …

Since 2003 German hospitals are reimbursed according to diagnosis related groups (DRGs). Patient classification in … the German birth statistics 1996 to 2010 and German hospital data from 2006 to 2011, we estimate that since the … introduction of DRGs, hospitals have upcoded at least 12,000 preterm infants and gained additional reimbursement in excess of 100 …

health care services among hospitals patients. These effects were stronger for adoptions occurring when also the national … System (PPS) for hospitals based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) to assess their impact on health and on the use of health …

The Coordination Reform was introduced in Norway in 2012 including a fee for bed-blocking in hospitals. To study this …, 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 …