Storino, Laura Shinn - 2012
utilization rates of non-stars at the same hospital. Star physicians are those who: (i) graduated from a Top 30 medical school or … logistic and OLS regressions to measure the effect of star physicians and star hospitals on the diffusion of an innovation in … bariatric surgery called laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery (LGBS). This paper tests for effects at both the hospital and …