The Role of Hospital and Market Characteristics in Invasive Cardiac Service Diffusion

Jill R. Horwitz, Charleen Hsuan, Austin Nichols

NBER Working Paper No. 23530
Issued in June 2017

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The authors thank Stephanie Tomlin, MIHCL, MPA and Weiping Zhou, MS in the Data Analytic Core at The Dartmouth Institute (supported by the National Institute on Aging (PO1-AG19783)) for data support, and Christopher Snyder and an anonymous reviewer for helpful comments. We also thank Jessi Bulaon, Henry Kim, Olivia Metcalfe, Matthew McCabe, Lynn McClelland, Ben Nyblade, and Matthew Parson for research assistance. Horwitz thanks the UCLA School of Law for summer research support. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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