Plausibly Exogenous [1687] - Hospital Care (09/15/2024)

LHS Variable
Quality of hospital care

RHS Variable
Hospital competition

Source of Exogenous Variation
Patient choice reform in Norway in 2001, which replaced an administrative scheme with referral of patients to the closest hospital in the catchment area, and thus implied a switch from a situation where hospitals were local monopolists to a situation with potential for (non-price) competition

- Brekke et al. (2021), “Hospital competition in a national health service: Evidence from a patient choice reform”