Hollingsworth, Alex; Thomasson, Melissa A.; Karbownik, … - 2022
. In this paper, we explore how access to the hospital and modern medicine affects mortality. We do so by leveraging a …-supported hospital reduced infant mortality by 10%, saving one life for every $20,000 (2017 dollars) spent. Effects were larger for Black … of the hospital from a fringe institution to one essential to the practice of medicine. Despite the central role of …