When:
Thursday, June 5, 2025
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT
Where:
Kellogg Global Hub, 3301, 2211 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Webcast Link
(Hybrid)
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Maggie Hendrix
(847) 467-7263
Group: Department of Economics: HELP Workshop
Category: Academic
Speaker: Aastha Rajan
Title: Hospital Ownership and Quality of Care
Abstract: We examine the impacts of for-profit ownership on hospital quality of care, primarily measured by readmission, costs, and mortality. Using an instrumental variables strategy to mitigate patient selection into hospital type, we find that for-profit hospitals have slightly worse outcomes.