Hollingsworth, Alex; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Thomasson, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
of the hospital from a fringe institution to one essential to the practice of medicine. In this paper, we explore how … access to the hospital and modern medicine affects mortality. We do so by leveraging a combination of novel data and a unique … quasi-experiment: a large-scale hospital modernization program introduced by The Duke Endowment in the early twentieth …