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Identifying Provider Prejudice in Healthcare
Chandra, Amitabh - 2010
We use simple economic insights to develop a framework for distinguishing between prejudice and statistical discrimination using observational data. We focus our inquiry on the enormous literature in healthcare where treatment disparities by race and gender are not explained by access,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137734
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Capacity Constraints and the Provision of Public Services : The Case of Workers in Public Health Clinics
Harris, Matthew - 2019
Unlike in the production of most goods, changes in capacity for labor-intensive services only affect outcomes of interest insofar as service providers change the way they allocate their time in response to those capacity changes. In this paper, we examine how public sector service providers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889489
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Healthcare Exceptionalism? Performance and Allocation in the U.S. Healthcare Sector
Chandra, Amitabh - 2018
patients who have greater scope for hospital choice, suggesting a role for patient demand in allocation in the hospital sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936864
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Hospital Allocation and Racial Disparities in Health Care
Chandra, Amitabh; Kakani, Pragya; Sacarny, Adam - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013217615
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Healthcare Exceptionalism? Productivity and Allocation in the U.S. Healthcare Sector
Chandra, Amitabh - 2014
market shares at a point in time and are more likely to expand over time. For example, a 10 percent increase in hospital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013063567
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Technology Diffusion and Productivity Growth in Health Care
Skinner, Jonathan S. - 2012
Inefficiency in the U.S. health care system has often been characterized as quot;flat of the curvequot; spending providing little or no incremental value. In this paper, we draw on macroeconomic models of diffusion and productivity to better explain the empirical patterns of outcome improvements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754821
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Reproductive Health Care in Catholic-Owned Hospitals
Hill, Elaine - 2017
Mergers that affiliate a hospital with a Catholic owner, network, or system reduce the set of possible reproductive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948095
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The Quality of Health Care Providers
McClellan, Mark B.; Staiger, Douglas - 2022
available quality measures, and (2) apply this method to estimating the quality of hospital care for elderly patients with heart …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013309213
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How Spillovers from Appointment Reminders Improve Health Clinic Efficiency
Boone, Claire; Celhay, Pablo A.; Gertler, Paul J.; … - 2022
Missed clinic appointments present a significant burden to health care through disruption of care, inefficient use of staff time and wasted clinical resources. Short message service (SMS) appointment reminders show promise to improve clinics’ management through timely appointment cancellations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014090297
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Health Status, Health Care and Inequality : Canada vs. The U.S
O'Neill, June - 2010
Does Canada's publicly funded, single payer health care system deliver better health outcomes and distribute health resources more equitably than the multi-payer heavily private U.S. system? We show that the efficacy of health care systems cannot be usefully evaluated by comparisons of infant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759803