Estimating Marginal Returns to Medical Care: Evidence from At-Risk Newborns
A key policy question is whether the benefits of additional medical expenditures exceed their costs. We propose a new approach for estimating marginal returns to medical spending based on variation in medical inputs generated by diagnostic thresholds. Specifically, we combine regression discontinuit...
Main Authors: | Almond, Douglas (Author), Doyle, Joseph J. (Contributor), Kowalski, Amanda E. (Author), Williams, Heidi L. (Contributor) |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics (Contributor), Sloan School of Management (Contributor) |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MIT Press,
2010-09-30T19:22:01Z.
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Online Access: | Get fulltext |
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