Plausibly Exogenous [1716] - Patient Choice (10/14/2024)

LHS Variable
Demand response to clinical quality

RHS Variable
Patient choice

Source of Exogenous Variation
2006 reform in England National Health Service (NHS) that mandated that patients in the English NHS had to be offered a choice of five hospitals when referred by their physician to a hospital for treatment.

- Gaynor, Propper, and Seiler (2016), “Free to choose? Reform, choice, and consideration sets in the English National Health Service”