Returns to Local-Area Healthcare Spending: Using Health Shocks to Patients far from Home
Health care spending varies widely across markets, and previous research finds little evidence that higher spending translates into better health outcomes. The main innovation in this paper exploits this cross-sectional variation in hospital spending in a new way by considering emergency patients wh...
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| Language: | English |
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American Economic Association,
2011-08-12T13:34:38Z.
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