This paper explores the effects of public health insurance expansions on hospitals' decisions to adopt medical technology. Specifically, we test whether the expansion of Medicaid eligibility for pregnant women during the 1980s and 1990s affects hospitals' decisions to adopt neonatal intensive...

We examine the relationship between domestic air travel and the spread of COVID-19 during the first wave of the pandemic in the U.S. To do this, we link airline passenger flows with COVID-19 infection and mortality data, controlling for county-level population and demographic data. We examine...

This paper explores the effects of public health insurance expansions on hospitals' decisions to adopt medical technology. Specifically, we test whether the expansion of Medicaid eligibility for pregnant women during the 1980s and 1990s affects hospitals' decisions to adopt neonatal intensive...