Replication data for: Capacity and Utilization in Health Care: The Effect of Empty Beds on Neonatal Intensive Care Admission

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Seth Freedman

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Project Description

Summary: Because geographic variation in medical care utilization is jointly determined by both supply and demand, it is difficult to empirically estimate whether capacity itself has a causal impact on utilization in health care. In this paper, I exploit short-term variation in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) capacity that is unlikely to be correlated with unobserved demand determinants. I find that available NICU beds have little to no effect on NICU utilization for the sickest infants, but do increase utilization for those in the range of birth weights where admission decisions are likely to be more discretionary. (JEL I11, I12, I18, J13)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: [health care utilization, infant health, intensive care]

JEL Classification:
      I11 Analysis of Health Care Markets
      I12 Health Behavior
      I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
      J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth

Geographic Coverage: United States, California, United States, New York

Universe: Infants born in New York and California

Data Type(s): [administrative records data, medical records, observational data]

Methodology

Data Source: California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development's (OSHPD) Linked Patient Discharge Data/Birth Cohort File and New York State Department of Health Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System (SPARCS) inpatient discharge data

Unit(s) of Observation: Patient,

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Published Versions

V1 [2019-10-13]

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