A common reform used to increase consumer choice and competition in public services has been to allow private providers … privately owned hospitals to enter the market. We show that, post-reform, poor and ethnic minority patients were much less … suggest differences in health explain 18% of the difference in the use of private providers between rich and poor patients …

effects of competition for active patients as well as the negative effects of competition for passive patients become more … pronounced. Our results imply that competition can not only improve but also worsen patient outcome and that patients …We study how competition between physicians affects the provision of medical care. In our theoretical model physicians …

Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty procedures over the years 2008-2011. We examine how patients' choice of the hospital … of the discouraging effect of travel distance. We provide evidence that patients are responsive to changes in waiting ….17 and - 1.38, respectively. Patients' personal characteristics significantly influence how they trade off distance and …

This paper compares the welfare effects of three ways in which health care can be organized: no competition (NC …), competition for the market (CfM) and competition on the market (CoM) where the payer offers the optimal contract to providers in … whether patients react to decentralized information on quality differences between providers and whether payer's and patients …

This paper compares the welfare effects of three ways in which health care can be organized: no competition (NC …), competition for the market (CfM) and competition on the market (CoM) where the payer offers the optimal contract to providers in … whether patients react to decentralized information on quality differences between providers and whether payer’s and patients …

This paper investigates the consequences that patients face when their regular primary care provider closes down her … practice, typically due to retirement. We estimate the causal impact of closures on patients' utilization patterns, medical … expenditures, hospitalizations, and health plan choice. Employing a difference-in-difference framework, we find that patients who …

compliance with patient safety measures in both public and private facilities (more so in the latter) and reallocated patients …