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this, the UK government has pursued an active policy of hospital merger. These mergers are initiated by a regulator, acting … examine the impact of mergers on a large set of outcomes including financial performance, productivity, waiting times and …
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patients who have greater scope for hospital choice, suggesting a role for patient demand in allocation in the hospital sector …
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decompose the joint contribution of quality and unobserved productivity to hospital costs, relying on heterogeneous tastes among … is difficult to measure and potentially confounded with productivity. Rather than relying on clinical or process measures … productivity differences. After accounting for these differences, we find that a quality improvement from the 25th percentile to …
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The conventional wisdom in health economics is that large differences in average productivity across hospitals are the …, however, we find that productivity dispersion in heart attack treatment across hospitals is, if anything, smaller than in … market shares at a point in time and are more likely to expand over time. For example, a 10 percent increase in hospital …
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providing little or no incremental value. In this paper, we draw on macroeconomic models of diffusion and productivity to better … differences in the propensity to adopt technology can lead to wide and persistent productivity differences across countries -- or … productivity, and swamp the impact of traditional factor inputs. Holding technology constant, the marginal gains from spending on …
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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,...
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The impacts of choice in public services are controversial. We exploit a reform in the English National Health Service to assess the impact of relaxing constraints on patient choice. We estimate a demand model to evaluate whether increased choice increased demand elasticity faced by hospitals...
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population already has geographic access to the service at a nearby hospital. The first effect is stronger, leading to the net …
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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...
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Patient sorting can confound estimates of the returns to physician human capital. This paper compares nearly 30,000 patients who were randomly assigned to clinical teams from one of two academic institutions. One institution is among the top medical schools in the country, while the other...
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