Chatterji, Pinka; Ho, Chun-Yu; Wu, Xue - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We examine whether loss of emergency department services is associated with county-level mortality rates in rural areas … emergency department services to counties that retained them during our period. In the full sample, we find no effects of … emergency department closure on all-cause mortality; drug, alcohol, and suicide deaths; or AMI mortality. We find that closure …