"The health insurance characteristics of the population changes sharply at age 65 as most people become eligible for … Medicare. But do these changes matter for health? We address this question using data on over 400,000 hospital admissions for … are transferred to other care units in the hospital. We estimate a nearly 1 percentage point drop in 7-day mortality for …

We study public vs. private provision of health care for veterans aged 65 and older who may receive care provided by … of Doyle et al. (2015), we find that the VA reduces 28-day mortality by 46% (4.5 percentage points) and that these … relative to private hospitals. We find suggestive evidence of complementarities between continuity of care, health IT, and …