Medical providers often have a significant influence on treatment decisions which they can use in their own financial … increasing prices. We test this prediction based on a reform of hospital financing in Germany. Uniquely, this reform changed the …

We investigate the effect of extreme temperatures on mortality and emergency hospital admissions, and whether local … social care allows to mitigate their adverse effects. We merge monthly administrative data on mortality and hospital … mortality rates and hospital admission rates for both cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. These effects are mostly driven …

.5 and risk of hospital admissions (HAs) for MDs in Beijing and measure the attributable risk and economic cost. We apply a …

link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy …

hospitalization puts patients at risk of hospital acquired conditions and disrupts their lives. We use variation in the patient …'s nearest hospital's propensity to admit patients with similar observable characteristics as an instrument for the admission … we find that the marginal hospital admission increases the number of hospital days by seven days and increases charges by …