transport patients and have strong preferences for certain hospitals. Being admitted to a hospital with two standard deviations …

inpatient surgery records from a major city in China, we track post-surgery survival for over 1 million patients, and document a … patients undergoing respiratory or cancer operations - bears a majority of pollution's damages. Based on these empirical …

and improve health care access for low-income patients. We use administrative data from Kaiser Permanente to study the …

have a substantial influence on patients' health and health-related costs, but we know little about the extent of this … styles of primary care physicians significantly affect the health outcomes of their patients. Using data on the population of … statin users in Denmark and matching patients to their primary care physicians, we show that the physician's ability to …

patients, providers and the economy. We find strong evidence that the ACA's provisions have increased insurance coverage. There …

information and medical knowledge among patients, an enormous number of health policies are focused on patient education. In this … campaigns. To do so, we compare the care received by a group of patients that should have the best possible information on … health care service efficacy--i.e., physicians as patients--with a comparable group of non-physician patients, taking various …

Primary care physicians (PCPs) provide frontline health care to patients in the U.S.; however, it is unclear how their … health care utilization by focusing on Medicare patients affected by PCP relocations or retirements, which we refer to as … "exits." Observing where patients receive care after these exits, we estimate event studies to compare patients who switch to …