Medicaid expansion on a hospital's incentive to invest in technology. Using American Hospital Association data, we find that on …

of the hospital from a fringe institution to one essential to the practice of medicine. 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 Endowment in the early twentieth …

. Using a difference-in-differences design, we show that adopting a robot drives prostate cancer patients to the hospital. To …

' treatment decisions, and in turn hospital device procurement, in favor of paying firms. Payments are pervasive: 87 percent of … device sales in our sample occurred at a hospital where a relevant physician received a payment from a device firm. Payments … are also highly correlated with spending within a firm-hospital pair: event studies suggest that a large positive increase …