Capacity and Utilization in Health Care: The Effect of Empty Beds on Neonatal Intensive Care Admission
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Capacity and Utilization in Health Care: The Effect of Empty Beds on Neonatal Intensive Care Admission.
Because geographic variation in medical care utilization is jointly determined by both supply and demand, it is difficult to empirically estimate whether capacity itself has a causal impact on utilization in health care. In this paper, I exploit short-term variation in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) capacity that is unlikely to be correlated with unobserved demand determinants. I find that...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1945-7731,1945-774X
DOI: 10.1257/pol.20120393