Background: Most applications of choice-based conjoint analysis in health use choice tasks with only two profiles …

epidemics. In our experiment, all 1348 health facilities in three Kenyan counties were classified into 273 markets, and the …We report results from the first randomization of a regulatory reform in the health sector. The reform established … markets were then randomly allocated to treatment and control groups. Government inspectors visited health facilities and …

Patients rely on medical care providers to act in their best interests because providers understand disease pathology … and appropriate treatment much better than patients. Providers, however, not only give advice (diagnose) but also deliver … the appropriateness of care using data from an audit study that employed standardized patients (SP) who were trained to …

to patients displaying specific molecular alterations. For instance, targeted therapies are now available for 50% of lung … cancer patients--with some alterations affecting less than 1% of patients--greatly increasing life expectancy. In an …

We study the drivers of geographic variation in US health care utilization, using an empirical strategy that exploits … migration of Medicare patients to separate the role of demand and supply factors. Our approach allows us to account for demand … differences in patient health …

human capital (general, hospital-specific and unit or team-specific) of the nursing team on the unit affects patients …

seeking behavior during a public health crisis. This paper evaluates the effect of COVID-19 vaccination on the individual … vaccines for their parents, indicating the presence of a positive health spillover within households that extends beyond … coronavirus, but also safeguarding against the worsening of health due to delayed or foregone medical care. The decline in delayed …

patient demand. The model is identified by migration of patients and physicians across areas, as well as by variation in … within-area matching. We find that physicians vary greatly in the intensity with which they treat otherwise similar patients …

improve health outcomes if it reduces information frictions and helps patients choose higher quality providers or causes …High-speed internet has increased the amount of information available in health care markets. Online information may … providers to improve quality. We examine how health outcomes for common procedures in Medicare changed after broadband internet …

decide how aggressively the patient should be treated. Using Florida data on all such patients from 1992-2014, we decompose …. We show that within hospitals and years, patients with more aggressive providers have consistently higher costs and … better outcomes. Since all patients benefit from higher utilization of invasive procedures, targeting procedure use to the …