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

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

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

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Full title

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

Publisher

United States: American Economic Association

Journal title

The American economic review, 2016-08, Vol.106 (8), p.2110-2144

Language

English

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Publisher

United States: American Economic Association

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Contents

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 have higher market shares and grow more over time. T...

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

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Record Identifier

TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_5076021

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_5076021

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ISSN

0002-8282

E-ISSN

1944-7981

DOI

10.1257/aer.20151080

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