Spatial competition and quality: Evidence from the English family doctor market

Hugh Gravelle, Dan Liu, Carol Propper and Rita Santos

Journal of Health Economics, 2019, vol. 68, issue C

Abstract: We examine whether family doctor firms in England respond to local competition by increasing their quality. We measure quality in terms of clinical performance and patient-reported satisfaction to capture its multi-dimensional nature. We use a panel covering 8 years for over 8000 English general practices. We measure competition as the number of rival doctors within a small distance and control for a large number of potential confounders. We find that increases in local competition are associated with increases in patient satisfaction and to a lesser extent in clinical quality. However, the magnitude of the effect is small.

Keywords: Quality; Healthcare; Choice; Competition; Family; Physicians (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I11 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2019.102249

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