Competition in health insurance markets may fail to improve health outcomes if consumers
are not able to identify high-quality plans. We develop and apply a novel instrumental …

Non-random sorting can bias observational measures of institutional quality and distort
quality-based polices. I develop alternative quasi-experimental approaches to quality …

Hospital quality measures are crucial to a key idea behind health care payment
reforms:“paying for quality” instead of quantity. Nevertheless, such measures face major …

The past decade has witnessed a new wave of hospital-physician integration, with the
fraction of hospitals owning any office-based physician practice increasing from 28% in …

Patient experience measurement is receiving considerable attention from hospital
executives, healthcare leaders, purchasers such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid …

We investigate whether quality of care differs between public and private hospitals in
England using data on 3.8 million publicly-funded patients receiving 133 planned (non …

Economic theory predicts that outsourcing public services to private firms reduces costs, but
the effect on quality is ambiguous. We explore quality differences between publicly and …

Report cards on provider performance are intended to improve consumer decision-making
and address information gaps in the market for quality. However, inadequate risk adjustment …

Public reporting of medical treatment outcomes is being widely adopted by policymakers in
an effort to increase quality transparency and improve alignment between patient choices …

Empirical Bayes shrinkage methods usually maintain a prior independence assumption: The
unknown parameters of interest are independent from the known precision of the estimates …