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Sources of Geographic Variation in Health Care: Evidence from Patient Migration / Amy Finkelstein, Matthew Gentzkow, Heidi Williams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Finkelstein, Amy.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w20789.
- NBER working paper series no. w20789
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Sources of Geographic Variation in Health Care
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2014.
- Summary:
- We study the drivers of geographic variation in US health care utilization, using an empirical strategy that exploits migration of Medicare patients to separate the role of demand and supply factors. Our approach allows us to account for demand differences driven by both observable and unobservable patient characteristics. We find that 40-50 percent of geographic variation in utilization is attributable to patient demand, with the remainder due to place-specific supply factors. Demand variation does not appear to result from differences in past experiences, and is explained to a significant degree by differences in patient health.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- December 2014.
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