Saving Lives by Tying Hands: The Unexpected Effects of Constraining Health Care Providers

Jonathan Gruber, Thomas P. Hoe, George Stoye

NBER Working Paper No. 24445
Issued in March 2018

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We thank Richard Blundell, Aureo de Paula, Eric French, Peter Hull, and Henrik Kleven for useful comments, as well as seminar participants at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, MIT, and UCL. The authors thank NHS Digital and the Office for National Statistics for access to the Hospital Episode Statistics and official mortality statistics under data sharing agreement CON-205762-B8S7B. Hoe and Stoye gratefully acknowledge financial support from the UK Economic and Social Research Council through the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP) at IFS (ES/M010147/1). Author affiliations: Gruber (MIT and NBER); Hoe (University College London and Institute for Fiscal Studies); Stoye (University College London and Institute for Fiscal Studies). 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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