Esteves, Rui Pedro; Mitchener, Kris; Nencka, Peter; … - 2022
Using newly digitized U.S. city-level data on hospitals, we explore how pandemics alter preferences for healthcare. We … access to healthcare. We do not find evidence that government-run hospitals or other types of city-level spending related to … increased their count of hospitals by 8-10 percent in the years after the pandemic. This effect persisted to 1960 and was driven …
