The conventional wisdom in health economics is that large differences in average productivity across hospitals are the …

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risk of downstream hospitalizations by reducing access to beneficial health care. Amazingly, we know little about either of … these factors for the elderly, the most intensive consumers of health care in our country. We remedy both of these … price sensitivity appears to greatly exceed that of the famous RAND Health Insurance Experiment (HIE). Moreover, unlike the …

We develop a simple framework to measure the role of hospital allocation in racial disparities in health care and use …

The conventional wisdom in health economics is that idiosyncratic features of the healthcare sector leave little scope …

The conventional wisdom in health economics is that large differences in average productivity across hospitals are the …