review the large empirical literature on the strategic determination of hospital prices through the lens of this model …

This paper develops new econometric methods to infer hospital quality in a model with discrete dependent variables and … non-random selection. Mortality rates in patient discharge records are widely used to infer hospital quality. However …, hospital admission is not random and some hospitals may attract patients with greater unobserved severity of illness than …

This paper develops new econometric methods to infer hospital quality in a model with discrete dependent variables and … non-random selection. Mortality rates in patient discharge records are widely used to infer hospital quality. However …, hospital admission is not random and some hospitals may attract patients with greater unobserved severity of illness than …

-adjusted hospital mortality rates. Conversely, increases in competition for Medicare enrollees are associated with increases in risk … for Medicare appears to reduce quality, and perhaps reduces welfare. The net effect of a given merger on hospital quality …

This paper develops new econometric methods to estimate hospital quality and other models with discrete dependent … variables and non-random selection. Mortality rates in patient discharge records are widely used to infer hospital quality …. However, hospital admission is not random and some hospitals may attract patients with greater unobserved severity of illness …