The coronavirus pandemic has had huge impacts on the National Health Service (NHS).
Patients suffering from the illness have placed unprecedented demands on acute care …

Pharmaceutical companies market to physicians through individual detailing accompanied
by monetary or in-kind transfers. Large compensation payments to a small number of …

High-speed internet has increased the amount of information available in health care
markets. Online information may improve health outcomes if it reduces information frictions …

This paper estimates the impact of hospital crowding on medical treatment decisions and
patient health outcomes. Exploiting pseudorandom variation in emergency admissions, I find …

High-speed internet has increased the amount of information available in health care
markets. Online information may improve health outcomes if it reduces information frictions …

We use data on all prescriptions filled at US retail pharmacies from 2006-2018 to examine
deviations from best practice in the prescription of psychiatric medications to children. The …

This paper provides empirical evidence on the aggregation of information in committees. We
analyze unique data from the decision-making process of hiring committees within a large …

This study investigates the causal effect of hospital volume on health gains from hip
replacement surgery in the English National Health Service. We exploit a unique dataset …

Treatment intensity varies remarkably across physicians, yet the key drivers are not well
understood. Meanwhile, the organization of healthcare is undergoing a secular …

There are widespread differences in total factor productivity across producers in the US and
around the world. To help explain these variations, we devise a general test for …