Sources of Geographic Variation in Health Care: Evidence From Patient Migration

We study the drivers of geographic variation in U.S. health care utilization, using an empirical strategy that exploits migration of Medicare patients to separate the role of demand and supply factors. Our approach allows us to account for demand differences driven by both observable and unobservabl...

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Main Authors: Gentzkow, Matthew, Finkelstein, Amy, Williams, Heidi L
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105328
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9941-6684
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4364-1505