air pollution shock mitigation in a high-stakes healthcare setting: hospital surgery scheduling. Using newly available … findings, we build and analyze a model of hospital surgery scheduling. For over a third of the high-risk surgeries, there … inpatient surgery records from a major city in China, we track post-surgery survival for over 1 million patients, and document a …

how technology affects healthcare markets, we focus on one area where adoption has been particularly rapid: surgery for … prostate cancer. Over just six years, robotic surgery grew to become the dominant intensive prostate cancer treatment method …. Using a difference-in-differences design, we show that adopting a robot drives prostate cancer patients to the hospital. To …

following the adoption of national-standard laws in initially low surgery-rate regions--i.e., following a change in the law that … initially high-surgery-rate regions change their laws so as to expect less intensive practice styles …

, but the magnitude of the decline was smaller in physician-owned surgery centers. Incentives affected physicians' reactions …

well in addition to profit. The introduction of quality "report cards" for cardiac surgery in Pennsylvania provides an …