Using newly digitized U.S. city-level data on hospitals, we explore how pandemics alter preferences for healthcare. We … increased their count of hospitals by 8-10 percent in the years after the pandemic. This effect persisted to 1960 and was driven … by increases in non-governmental hospitals. Growth responded most in richer cities, exacerbating existing inequalities in …

medicine in contemporary society, little is known about how hospitals and modern medicine contributed to this health transition … Endowment in the early twentieth century. The Endowment helped communities build and expand hospitals, obtain state …. We further provide evidence on the mechanisms that enabled these effects, finding that Endowment-supported hospitals …

medicine in contemporary society, little is known about how hospitals and modern medicine contributed to this health transition … Endowment in the early twentieth century. The Endowment helped communities build and expand hospitals, obtain state …. We further provide evidence on the mechanisms that enabled these effects, finding that Endowment-supported hospitals …