urban-rural gap in public infrastructure. Leftwing governments relocate hospital beds from rural regions. We propose that … leftwing governments do so to gratify their more urban constituencies. In turn, spatial inequalities in hospital infrastructure …

urban-rural gap in public infrastructure. Leftwing governments relocate hospital beds from rural regions. We propose that … leftwing governments do so to gratify their more urban constituencies. In turn, spatial inequalities in hospital infrastructure …

to properly identify the factors affecting the use of health services the most. As for hospital care, spillovers may …. Our paper focuses on a largely overlooked potential source of spillovers in hospital expenditure: the heterogeneity of …

-2010) panel of Italian data on hospital discharges to assess the determinants of inter-regional mobility and to distinguish … national-level) factors. Data on hospital discharges are merged with a set of variables on salient features of hospital care …; Vega and Elhorst, 2015). The model is estimated for total inter-regional patient flows and for specific types of hospital …

within 15 days between extreme regions. They may reflect spatial differences in patient characteristics, treatments, hospital …