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 …

, we introduce a Stackelberg game where the hospital is the leader and the care institution is the follower. The reform …

) 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 …

effect of ageing, from other alternative explanations such as the presence of comorbidities and endogenous time to death (TTD …

find that cities with higher levels of mortality during the Great Influenza of 1918-1919 subsequently expanded hospital …

of the hospital from a fringe institution to one essential to the practice of medicine. Despite the central role of …. In this paper, we explore how access to the hospital and modern medicine affects mortality. We do so by leveraging a … combination of novel data and a unique quasi-experiment: a large-scale hospital modernization program introduced by The Duke …