Health Care Exceptionalism? Performance and Allocation in the US Health Care Sector

The conventional wisdom for the health care sector is that idiosyncratic features leave little scope for market forces to allocate consumers to higher performance producers. However, we find robust evidence across several different conditions and performance measures that higher quality hospitals ha...

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Main Authors: Chandra, Amitabh, Finkelstein, Amy, Sacarny, Adam, Syverson, Chad
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Published: American Economic Association 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/114040
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9941-6684

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