in the hospital sector than the one found in manufacturing, with gains coming mainly from within-hospital productivity …

decompose the joint contribution of quality and unobserved productivity to hospital costs, relying on heterogeneous tastes among … the 75th percentile would increase costs at the average hospital by nearly fifty percent. Improvements in traditional … metrics of hospital quality such as risk-adjusted mortality are more modest, indicating that other factors such as amenities …

patients who have greater scope for hospital choice, suggesting a role for patient demand in allocation in the hospital sector …

market shares at a point in time and are more likely to expand over time. For example, a 10 percent increase in hospital …