Whether feedback is an effective means to improve the quality of health care is empirically not well understood. We analyze the causal effect of expert feedback on individual physicians' decisions on antibiotic therapies in pediatrics. We employ a novel randomized, controlled framed field...

The concentration of hospital capacities often involves closures of smaller hospital sites. While advocates of hospital concentrations emphasize increased quality of care and cost savings, some people may feel their health care is at risk. In this paper, I analyze the effect of 18 recent...

Our study contributes to the scholarly debate whether organizational units should have a narrow focus and admit a homogeneous patient cluster or whether they should admit a pool of patient clusters. We investigate whether the benefits of increased volume through pooling patients outweigh the...