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How far to the hospital?: The effect of hospital closures on access to care

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  1. Tamara Hayford, 2011. "The Impact of Hospital Mergers on Treatment Intensity and Health Outcomes: Working Paper 2011-05," Working Papers 42753, Congressional Budget Office.
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  8. Schmid, Andreas, 2007. "Incentive Compatibility and Efficiency in the contractual Insurer-Provider Relationship: Economic Theory and practical Implications: The Case of North Carolina," MPRA Paper 23311, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 2008.
  9. Lemont, Bethany, 2024. "The impact of Medicaid expansion and travel distance on access to transplantation," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 94(C).
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  12. Marissa B Kosnik & David M Reif & Danelle T Lobdell & Thomas Astell-Burt & Xiaoqi Feng & John D Hader & Jane A Hoppin, 2019. "Associations between access to healthcare, environmental quality, and end-stage renal disease survival time: Proportional-hazards models of over 1,000,000 people over 14 years," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(3), pages 1-17, March.
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  17. Andre, Jennifer & Blavin, Fredric & Braga, Breno & Gangopadhyaya, Anuj, 2023. "The Impact of Hospital Closures on Medical Debt in Collections: Analysis Using Consumer Credit Bureau Data," IZA Discussion Papers 16448, IZA Network @ LISER.
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  20. Simonsen, Marianne & Skipper, Lars & Skipper, Niels & Thingholm, Peter Rønø, 2021. "Discontinuity in care: Practice closures among primary care providers and patient health care utilization," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 80(C).
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  23. Buchmueller, Thomas C. & Jacobson, Mireille & Wold, Cheryl, 2006. "How far to the hospital?: The effect of hospital closures on access to care," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 25(4), pages 740-761, July.
  24. Guidetti, Bruna & Pereda, Paula & Severnini, Edson, 2020. "Health Shocks under Hospital Capacity Constraint: Evidence from Air Pollution in Sao Paulo, Brazil," IZA Discussion Papers 13211, IZA Network @ LISER.
  25. Fischer, Stefanie & Royer, Heather & White, Corey, 2018. "The impacts of reduced access to abortion and family planning services on abortions, births, and contraceptive purchases," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 167(C), pages 43-68.
  26. Avdic, Daniel, 2016. "Improving efficiency or impairing access? Health care consolidation and quality of care: Evidence from emergency hospital closures in Sweden," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 48(C), pages 44-60.
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  28. Adhvaryu, Achyuta & Nyshadham, Anant, 2011. "Healthcare Choices, Information and Health Outcomes," Center Discussion Papers 107257, Yale University, Economic Growth Center.
  29. Anna Zaytseva & Benoît Bayenet & Ilan Tojerow, 2023. "Effet de la taille des hôpitaux sur la qualité des soins de santé," Dulbea Policy Brief 23.06, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
  30. Jing Dong & Siying Liu & Asefeh Faraz Covelli & Guido Cataife, 2024. "Effects of rural hospital closures on nurse staffing levels and health care utilization at nearby hospitals," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 33(12), pages 2687-2707, December.
  31. S. Balia & R. Brau & S. Pau, 2025. "One plus one makes less than two? Consolidation policies and mortality in the Italian NHS," Working Paper CRENoS 202502, Centre for North South Economic Research, University of Cagliari and Sassari, Sardinia.
  32. Ghislandi, Simone & Renner, Anna-Theresa & Varghese, Nirosha Elsem, 2025. "The impact of budget cuts on individual patient health: Causal evidence from hospital closures," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 101(C).
  33. Galdo, Jose C. & Contreras, Cesar & Horna, Marjorie, 2025. "The Mental Health Effects of Living near Overburdened Hospitals During COVID-19 in Perú," IZA Discussion Papers 17662, IZA Network @ LISER.
  34. Nicolas R. Ziebarth, 2018. "Social Insurance and Health," Contributions to Economic Analysis, in: Health Econometrics, volume 127, pages 57-84, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
  35. Song, Lina & Saghafian, Soroush, 2019. "Do Hospital Closures Improve the Efficiency and Quality of Other Hospitals?," Working Paper Series rwp19-006, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government.
  36. Leguizamon, Susane & Christafore, David, 2014. "Racial Differences in Willingness to Pay for Hospital Access," MPRA Paper 55926, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  37. Kleiner, Samuel A., 2019. "Hospital treatment and patient outcomes: Evidence from capacity constraints," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 175(C), pages 94-118.
  38. Marko Matejic, 2017. "Reconfiguration of acute care hospitals in post-socialist Serbia: spatial distribution of hospital beds," International Journal of Health Planning and Management, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 32(2), pages 160-184, April.
  39. Stefanie Fischer & Heather Royer & Corey White, 2022. "Health Care Centralization: The Health Impacts of Obstetric Unit Closures in the US," Monash Economics Working Papers 2022-06, Monash University, Department of Economics.
  40. Kollerup, Anna & Wadmann, Sarah & Bek, Toke & Kjellberg, Jakob, 2022. "National clinical guidelines and treatment centralization do not guarantee consistency in healthcare delivery. A mixed-methods study of wet age-related macular degeneration treatment in Denmark," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 126(12), pages 1291-1302.
  41. Gaughan, James & Siciliani, Luigi & Gravelle, Hugh & Moscelli, Giuseppe, 2020. "Do small hospitals have lower quality? Evidence from the English NHS," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 265(C).
  42. Marianne Simonsen & Lars Skipper & Niels Skipper & Peter Rønø Thingholm, 2019. "Discontinuity in Care: Practice Closures among Primary Care Providers and Patient Health," Economics Working Papers 2019-08, Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University.
  43. World Bank, 2021. "Connectivity for Human Capital," World Bank Publications - Reports 35185, The World Bank Group.
  44. Sonia Bhalotra & Letícia Nunes & Rudi Rocha, 2020. "Urgent Care Centers, Hospital Performance and Population Health," Working Papers 10, Instituto de Estudos para Políticas de Saúde.
  45. Stefanie Fischer & Heather Royer & Corey White, 2017. "The Impacts of Reduced Access to Abortion and Family Planning Services: Evidence from Texas," Working Papers 1705, California Polytechnic State University, Department of Economics.
  46. Sriubaite, Ieva, 2021. "Who will be the mediator? Local politics and hospital closures in Germany," Ruhr Economic Papers 897, RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Ruhr-University Bochum, TU Dortmund University, University of Duisburg-Essen.
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